When delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) gather for their annual meeting in New Orleans next month, many expect a watershed moment: the election of the first black president in the denomination’s history.
Some expect an additional dynamic among the delegates called “messengers” in the denomination: serious discussions of a race-related controversy that has gripped the SBC since April. It’s a discussion that flows from a race-related controversy that has gripped the entire nation—the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida....
