My friend's father is a Southern Baptist Reverend. It is a bit strange to me.
Well, it   is the world's largest Baptist denomination.
I'm not a particularly religious person. Sometimes the trappings of a church are very foreign to me.
Maybe it is because   the Southern Baptist Convention has shifted from some of its regional and historical identification.
Is that so? What was its regional and historical identification?
Baptists in the Southern United States who split with northern Baptists over the issue of slavery, specifionacally whether Southern slave owners could serve as missiries.
That seems like an opportunity for controversy. I had never really heard of a "northern baptist church" though.
It is mostly known in the South of the USA