SOUTHERN BAPTISTS IN THE 'DOLDRUMS'

Southern Baptist leader Bobby Welch says his denomination is in the doldrums:

The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s biggest Protestant denomination and the largest gathering of evangelical Christians in the world, is in the “doldrums” and faces a challenge to determine whether it is on the right path, its leader said Thursday.

The convention’s president, the Rev. Bobby Welch of First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Fla., also said that a resolution decrying immorality in American public schools was likely to be debated at next week’s annual gathering in Nashville, Tenn., but that it would be wrong for Southern Baptists to withdraw their children from public classrooms.

Certainly you're not hearing the same amount of buzz from the Baptist convention that you were a few years ago.