Interesting that the SBC and CBF chose to meet in the same city. The meetings are usually a week apart, but I think this is the first time they've been in the same place. I don't see the blog chatter about the SBC this year that was there last time around, probably because they don't have a contested presidential race coming up, or at least it isn't anticipated. I'll watch the Baptist press to see how they handle the hot topic. I'm pretty sure that clergy abuse is going to come up. We'll see if their response, if there is one, is as ham-fisted as it's been in the past. Denominational polity makes it sticky. I haven't seen any preliminary figures but I would guess there will still be some discomfort and discussion about declining membership and attendance, and according to William on another blog, declining CP revenues.
CBF has been extremely quiet. Maybe that's the leadership change. Suzii Paynter was pretty good about getting CBF into the press, at least the interdenominational religious press. I would guess that money might be a big topic of discussion there as well.