By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship looks forward to an “in-between year” characterized by implementation of a new identity statement and a search for a successor to retiring CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, the group’s incoming moderator said June….
ABP honors Druin for lifetime work
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism June 21 to Toby Druin, retired associate editor and editor of Baptist state newspapers in North Carolina and Texas, who chronicled the historic era…
ABP honors Druin for lifetime achievement
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism June 21 to Toby Druin, retired associate editor and editor of Baptist state newspapers in North Carolina and Texas, who chronicled the historic era…
ABP honors Druin for lifetime achievement
By Bob Allen Associated Baptist Press presented its Greg Warner Lifetime Achievement Award in Religious Journalism June 21 to Toby Druin, retired associate editor and editor of Baptist state newspapers in North Carolina and Texas, who chronicled the historic era…
CBF to vote on identity plan
By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship votes June 22 on a new model for identity, governance and financial support intended to guide the moderate Baptist group formed in 1991 for the next 20 years. The recommendations are result of…
CBF chaplains see gains
By Jeff Brumley Last year, Cooperative Baptist Fellowhsip chaplains arose at the General Assembly in Tampa to demand a more prominent seat at the table of denominational life. In a Thursday workshop at this year’s assembly, some of those leaders said…
CBF chaplains see gains
CBF kicks off Assembly
By Bob Allen The 22nd annual Cooperative Baptist Fellowship began June 21 in Fort Worth, Texas, with a concert by singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer, celebrations honoring retiring Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal and opportunities for Fellowship Baptists to learn and share ideas…
Group builds home, hope in 10 days
By Bob Allen Butch and Mary Ann Brown were nearly at a loss for words walking for the first time through their new home built by volunteers with the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship. “Beautiful,” Butch, terminally ill and confined to a…
Mission trip bonds offensive line
By Jeff Brumley Growing up the son of CBF missionaries got Dave Harding accustomed to seeing the hardships millions endure in the Third World. But that changed in May when Harding, 21, led nine other Duke University football players and…
Southern Baptists elect black president
By Bob Allen One hundred sixty-seven years after forming over the right to appoint slaveholders as missionaries and 17 years after apologizing for the denomination’s racist past, the Southern Baptist Convention elected its first African-American president June 19. Messengers to…
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship sessions to be webcast
FORT WORTH, Texas—Five main sessions of the upcoming June 20-23 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Fort Worth, Texas, will be broadcast live online. Sessions can be viewed live or accessed later from archives at www.thefellowship.info/fortworth. The first webcast features…