Caroline Cook has been named a Clemons Fellow with Baptist News Global for the summer.
She has just completed her freshman year at Baylor University and is exploring a career in communications.
The Clemons Fellowship at BNG was endowed by gifts from Ardelle and Hardy Clemons and Gene Puckett. Both Ardelle Clemons and Gene Puckett were founding board members of Associated Baptist Press, precursor to Baptist News Global.
Many of BNG’s most recent Clemons Fellows continue to write for BNG, including Rick Pidcock, Mallory Challis and David Bumgardner. Cook will join current Clemons Fellows Mara Richards Bim and Braxton Wade.
Caroline Cook
“Caroline has grown up in the Baptist church and is well-versed in the kinds of things we write about every day,” said BNG Executive Director Mark Wingfield. “Not only because her father, Matt Cook, is a former CBF pastor who now leads a church consulting group but because Caroline herself has been immersed in the life of the church.”
Wingfield said BNG is fortunate that the three namesakes of the endowment funds earmarked for this cause had the foresight to invest in the future: “One of our foremost goals is to train and empower a new generation of Christian journalists who value truth-telling and storytelling. Caroline will jump in that stream with some really fine writers who have gone before her.”
The Hardy and Ardelle Clemons Fund and the Gene Puckett Fund remain open for additional gifts to the corpus that funds this fellowship. For more information, visit here.