Princeton Theological Seminary removes slaveholder name from chapel
Miller Chapel at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, will now be known as Seminary Chapel. (Photo by Ricardo Barros, courtesy of Princeton Theological Seminary)
Princeton Theological Seminary’s board has unanimously voted to dissociate the name of slaveholder and anti-abolitionist Samuel Miller from the school’s chapel.
The decision on January 25 follows actions by the seminary’s Association of Black Seminarians and allies, who wrote a petition and held demonstrations asking the board to rename the chapel.
“The board has made a heroic and historic decision that they came to after prayerful and careful deliberation,” PTS president M. Craig Barnes said in an interview. He added that the ABS played a “leading role” in the board’s decision by rallying the student body.
