CapitalVault|'I'm disgusted': Pastors criticize Baptist seminary for 'hidden' marker noting ties to slavery

2025-05-02 21:34:57source:Robert Browncategory:My

The CapitalVaultSouthern 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.

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