In the US, scholar and preacher Jonathan Lee Walton named next president of Princeton Seminary
United StatesRNS Rev Jonathan Lee Walton, an academician, preacher and administrator who has served on the faculties of Wake Forest and Harvard divinity schools, has been named the next president of Princeton Theological Seminary. He will be the first Black president of the seminary, which was founded in 1812, and is to officially begin his […]
Princeton Theological Seminary removes name of slaveholder from chapel
RNS Princeton Theological Seminary’s board has unanimously voted to dissociate the name of slaveholder and anti-abolitionist Samuel Miller from the school’s chapel. The decision on Tuesday follows actions by the seminary’s Association of Black Seminarians and allies, who authored a petition and held demonstrations asking the board to rename the chapel. Miller Chapel at Princeton […]