'The White Christian Shuffle': Southern Seminary Sets Aside $5 Million for Black Students - Word&Way

‘The White Christian Shuffle’: Southern Seminary Sets Aside $5 Million for Black Students

Author Robert P. Jones calls it “The White Christian Shuffle.” The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary did it Monday when its board of trustees took a small step toward reconciliation by voting to set up a $5 million scholarship endowment for Black students. But it may have taken a step or two backward when it left the names of the seminary’s slave-holding founders on names and programs at the school’s campus.

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