A prominent Southern Baptist seminary is taking corrective action as it reels from a cascade of financial mismanagement and reputational hits spanning several presidential administrations. Interim ...
This is by God’s grace. It is to God’s glory,” President R. Albert Mohler, Jr. said as he welcomed guests to The Southern ...
The largest Protestant denomination in the United States is apologizing for its dark history of racism. Lawrence Ware, professor of philosophy and Africana studies at Oklahoma State University. Former ...
A Southern Baptist seminary with historical ties to slavery has decided not to make monetary reparations to a nearby Baptist college founded in 1879 by formerly enslaved people, according to the ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (RNS) — Founders of one of the nation’s largest seminaries owned more than 50 slaves and said that slavery was morally correct. But an internal investigation found no evidence the ...
(RNS) — Southern Baptist seminary presidents have taken up a hot culture war issue in a recent statement, saying “critical race theory” is incompatible with the denomination’s central statement of ...
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary announced it will require all students to enroll in a sexual abuse prevention and response course starting this fall. Southeastern, located in Wake Forrest, ...
Historic report on Southern Baptist Convention leaders' handling of abuse crisis leads to new revelations Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary admitted a sex offender who self-disclosed his ...
After an unflinching look at its racist past, SBC’s flagship seminary aims to honor a more diverse population on campus. After overhearing a tour guide honoring the early leaders of Southern Baptist ...
In the seven months since the death of Breonna Taylor, we’ve seen Louisville put the statue of John Breckinridge Castleman in storage and the state mothball its statue of Jefferson Davis because of ...
More than two decades after the Southern Baptist Convention — the country’s second-largest faith group — apologized to African Americans for its active defense of slavery in the 1800s, its flagship ...