Frances Colbert Terrell, age 78, grew up in Alexandria, Va., in the shadow of the Virginia Theological Seminary campus. When she was a child, she would go to the campus to watch the boys from her ...
A Virginia based Episcopal seminary is placing $1.7 million toward an endowment fund that is designed to pay reparations for slavery. The announcement of the fund occurred last Thursday citing the ...
The Virginia Theological Seminary released a statement Friday in support of alumna Bishop Mariann Budde after she received conservative pushback for comments this week during the National Cathedral’s ...
A Virginia-based Episcopal seminary has set aside $1.7 million into a fund to pay back reparations to the descendants of slaves that worked on its campus. The fund is believed to be the first of its ...
The Virginia Theological Seminary has begun paying reparations to descendants of slaves and Black Americans who built the campus during slavery and Jim Crow. The Seminary began making cash payments in ...
(RNS) — 'This is the Seminary recognizing that along with repentance for past sins, there is also a need for action,' said Virginia Theological Seminary President Ian S. Markham. (RNS) — An Episcopal ...
The Virginia Theological Seminary, in what is being called a first for an institution of its kind, has set aside $1.7 million in a fund to pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans that ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Alexandria Health Department is asking for anyone who has recently been to the Immanuel Chapel at Virginia Theological Seminary to monitory themselves after a potential ...
A 200-year-old Episcopal seminary in Virginia has thrown a financial lifeline to a struggling Episcopalian school in New York City — in part to head off a looming, critical shortage of clergy in the ...
Among elite U.S. universities, Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Georgetown have all admitted in recent years that at one time they benefited financially from the slave trade. But two Protestant seminaries ...