LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Southern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees have approved an endowment to establish the Duke K. McCall Chair of Christian Leadership and the McCall Leadership Lectures with funding by Dr. and Mrs. Duke McCall and the McCall Family Foundation.
The inaugural lecture will take place this fall in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of McCall’s election as president of Southern Seminary in August 1951.
“It is historic and a matter of great satisfaction that we are able to honor Duke K. McCall as the seventh president of this institution,” said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Seminary, during the April 19 trustee meeting in Louisville, Ky.
McCall is “synonymous with Christian statesmanship and leadership,” Mohler said.
“He has left a decisive mark not only at Southern Seminary but at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and the SBC Executive Committee and throughout the Southern Baptist Convention.”
Robert Sloan, president of Houston Baptist University, will be the first lecturer in the McCall series.
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