Interesting

From Salon an interesting article about the gradual transformation of the Southern Baptist Denomination (and specifically its relations with other Baptist faiths).

The last straw came in 2003 when the alliance accepted as a member the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a rival group to the SBC formed by moderates.

When the SBC leadership decided to propose the pullout to the annual meeting, the moderate editor of the Texas convention newspaper charged that "fundamentalists must control. What they cannot control, they abandon and undermine."