In fall 2019, Princeton Theological Seminary pledged to spend $27 million to address its ties to slavery through scholarships and other initiatives. Since that time, the seminary has named its library for Theodore Sedgwick Wright, the seminary’s first African American graduate.
In a speech in April, Walton expressed his desire for renewal in troubled congregations and denominations.
“Our institutions … whether we’re talking about Black churches, whether we’re talking about the Southern Baptist Convention, whether we’re talking about Catholic churches, they are shot through with hypocrisy, mendacity, all forms of duplicity,” he told a gathering of journalists hosted by the Ethics & Public Policy Center’s Faith Angle Forum in April. “They absolutely are. And that’s why we always need prophetic revivalist movements within our religious traditions to hold the institutions accountable.”
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