In the US, flagship Southern Baptist seminary votes to retain slaveholders’ names on buildings
RNS The flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention decided on Monday to maintain the names of campus buildings named for school founders who had connections to slavery. At the same meeting, the trustees of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary created a multimillion-dollar scholarship fund for African American students. “We’re not going to erase our history […]
Mohler, prominent Southern Baptist, will be nominated to lead denomination
RNS There are seven more months before the next annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. But the race for SBC president may already be over, following news that R Albert Mohler, Jr, will likely be nominated to run as the denomination’s next president. R Albert Mohler, Jr, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, speaks […]
DEMENTIA: “WHAT IF I FORGET ABOUT GOD?”
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on the intersection of faith and dementia…
In the US, Southern Baptist seminary report ties founders to slaveholding, white supremacy
Louisville, Kentucky, USRNS Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the Southern Baptist Convention’s flagship seminary, has released a report delineating its ties to slavery, including its four founders’ ownership of a total of more than 50 slaves. The 71-page report, released Wednesday, says the seminary’s early trustees and faculty “defended the righteousness of slaveholding”. Boyce College on […]
US Southern Baptist seminary, in #MeToo age, appoints ‘women’s support coordinator’
Louisville, Kentucky, USRNS Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has appointed its first “women’s support coordinator” to address any gender-related “difficulties or challenges” that women encounter on its campus. “In our own internal review, we determined it was not fully supportive of women to require any woman to have to describe what could be very intimate matters […]