I think back on the many Evangelical stars who’ve come from DTS—from Charles Swindoll to Charles Ryrie, from J. Dwight Pentecost to Hal Lindsey, or J. Vernon McGee.
They’d attended a white supremacist school and said nothing about it.
In 1973, Dallas Theological Seminary’s admissions department said the school “welcomes black students.” But the school kept up a segregated system. They’d train Black students to be pastors—of Black churches.
In 2006, a graduating student named Jimmy King anticipated help from the school in finding a pastor gig. He recalled being told: