RIDGECREST, N.C. — The first African-American appointed to a full professorship at a Southern Baptist seminary was honored Aug. 2 with the fourth annual Black Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Heritage Award.
T. Vaughn Walker, chairman of the black church studies department in the school of theology at Southern Seminary, Louisville, Ky., received the award at a banquet during Black Church Leadership Week, July 31-Aug. 4 at Ridgecrest (N.C.), a LifeWay Conference Center. Walker also directs the doctor of ministry and Ph.D. programs in black church studies at the seminary and is pastor of First Gethsemane Baptist Church in Louisville.
Walker joined the faculty of Southern Seminary in 1985 as WMU professor of Christian ministry.
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