Current:Home > My'I'm disgusted': Pastors criticize Baptist seminary for 'hidden' marker noting ties to slavery -PureWealth Academy
'I'm disgusted': Pastors criticize Baptist seminary for 'hidden' marker noting ties to slavery
View
Date:2025-04-27 16:49:55
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, was founded 164 years ago by four men who all owned enslaved people.
But unlike other institutions of higher education, including Columbia University and the University of Cincinnati, which removed the names of slaveowners from its campus buildings, Southern’s president, R. Albert Mohler Jr., has refused to do the same.
veryGood! (94385)
Related
- Person accused of accosting Rep. Nancy Mace at Capitol pleads not guilty to assault charge
- Loch Ness Centre wants new generation of monster hunters for biggest search in 50 years
- U.S. Coast Guard rescues man from partially submerged boat who was stranded at sea off Florida coast
- A 'shout' across interstellar space restores contact between Voyager 2 craft and NASA
- Why Sean "Diddy" Combs Is Being Given a Laptop in Jail Amid Witness Intimidation Fears
- South Korea begins evacuating thousands of global Scouts from its coast as a tropical storm nears
- Elon Musk says his fight against Mark Zuckerberg will stream on X — but Zuck claps back
- Carson Wentz posts photos training in 'alternate uniform' featuring three NFL teams
- Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow owns a $3 million Batmobile Tumbler
- Why scientists are concerned that a 'rare' glacial flooding event could happen again
Ranking
- The White House is cracking down on overdraft fees
- Pope Francis restates church is for everyone, including LGBTQ+ people
- Hi, I'm Maisie! Watch this adorable toddler greeting some household ants
- Nearly all teens on Idaho YMCA camp bus that crashed have been released to their families
- Retirement planning: 3 crucial moves everyone should make before 2025
- Kansas officer critically wounded in shootout that killed Tennessee man, police say
- Brazil has 1.7 million Indigenous people, near double the count from prior census, government says
- CDC says COVID variant EG.5 is now dominant, including strain some call Eris
Recommendation
The White House is cracking down on overdraft fees
'Today' show's Jill Martin says she likely is cancer-free, but may undergo chemo
Russia court sentences Alexey Navalny, jailed opposition leader and Putin critic, to 19 more years in prison
AP PHOTOS: Women’s World Cup highlights
Romantasy reigns on spicy BookTok: Recommendations from the internet’s favorite genre
Inundation and Injustice: Flooding Presents a Formidable Threat to the Great Lakes Region
South Korea evacuating World Scout Jamboree site as Typhoon Khanun bears down
Arrest warrants issued after boaters attack dock employee at Montgomery riverbank