Southern Baptists meet, reconsider direction | ajc.com

Southern Baptists meet, reconsider direction | ajc.com: "Southern Baptists head into their annual national meeting this week at odds over whether they've become too conservative and wed to partisan politics, or whether a harder line is necessary to give the denomination a clear identity.

Beginning Tuesday in San Antonio, proposals over everything from political involvement to clergy sexual abuse to speaking in tongues should provide a glimpse of where the 16.3 million-member denomination is headed, 28 years after the 'conservative resurgence' swept liberals out."