A Quick Critique:
What I like:
--I like your graphics except I don't think they were put to use in the best way. (More on that in what needs improved.)
--I like the open bible and closed bible as your "new" and "not new" icons.
--I like the font you chose for your forum text, looks like the font style you'd see in many older bibles.
--I think you have your boards sorted very nicely and glad to see rules, introduce yourself right at the top.
What needs improved:
--I really love your banner except I don't think is should be used as a banner. Anything moving all the time can drive people nuts. Most people use something like that to advertise their site as you did in your post here or put it in their signature or use it as an affiliate banner. I think it would have been fine if the automation stopped after a few cycles.
--Also the scroll seems a bit odd. You really can't see the whole thing and it's just seems to be sitting there with no reason, honestly. I almost wish it might have been incorporated into your banner somehow. I'm wondering if it might look better if the size was really increased so it filled the whole screen background but then it doesn't seem wide enough to work out right? I'm sorry, I just don't have any good advice on how to make that work and I wish I could because I like the tannish golden tones you brought in against the dark background and in fact, if you brought in a few more touches of that color in other places on your forum, maybe that would make the scroll bar look fine in the position it is. An idea would be to move your category titles all the way to the right and change them to a gold tone text color? (That would also bring some balance.)
--I mentioned I liked your new/not new icons but I almost wish the lighter bible was used for the boards and the darker in the info center or something else for the info center.
That's just some thoughts off the top of my head and I hope that may have helped a little or maybe inspired you to do something else to bring the whole look together. Best of luck with your site and if you need anything clarified just ask.