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Southern Baptists elect 1st black president

The Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to elect its first African-American president in one of its biggest steps yet to reconcile the 167-year-old denomination's troubled racial past and appeal to a more diverse group of believers.

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ender929 - 7/1/2012 4:54 PM
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Good, perhaps he can reorient the denomination away from the drift it is incurring. Bonhoeffer felt the only place he found true Christianity while he was in America, was in the Harlem churches.
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