[Cronos]

Now the SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) has elected a black president (2012) in the hope that by embracing "diversity", it will reverse membership decline. Not going to happen.

i don't know enough about this beyond what I've read in the online papers, but I don't believe that they elected the black President just to embrace diversity. From what i've read about him (admittedly very little), he seems conservative and a good President for the SBC

[MacNaughton]

41 i don't know enough about this beyond what I've read in the online papers, but I don't believe that they elected the black President just to embrace diversity. From what i've read about him (admittedly very little), he seems conservative and a good President for the SBC

Yes, he does seem to be orthodox in his beliefs. Just repeating opinons I have read on SBC sites. He did say, within a week of his election, that he intended to put more blacks into positions of influence within the SBC ranks. That sounded ominous to me. Haven't heard much lately from him ... we shall see what develops.