By Emily Holladay George Pickle, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship chaplaincy and pastoral counseling specialist, announced he will retire effective June 30 after 12 years of service to CBF-endorsed chaplains and pastoral counselors. “I have been thoroughly blessed by my relationship…
CBF considers moving offices
By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council authorized staff leadership Feb. 22 to renegotiate terms of the CBF Resource Center’s current lease with Mercer University as part of the implementation of a new structure approved last summer following…
The future of CBF and the matter of legacy
By David Burroughs The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is a movement started by the people who stepped away from oppression and made some bold decisions about our future 22 years ago at our founding. We were not going to be a…
Suzii Paynter elected to lead CBF
By Bob Allen Lay denominational worker Suzii Paynter of Austin, Texas, was elected Feb. 21 as the third executive coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The CBF Coordinating Council unanimously elected Paynter, whose nomination was announced Jan. 17 after a…
Enough to make a Baptist dance
By Pam Durso I grew up as a Texas Baptist — in the days when dancing was a sin — and since I was a good Christian girl, I never learned to dance and certainly didn’t attend school dances! Given…
Working poor a ministry focus
By Daniel Wallace The problem isn’t that they can’t find jobs. The problem is the jobs they find don’t support their families’ basic needs. Welcome to the plight of America’s working poor. “As long as the economy is struggling the…
Lay leader Steve Tondera dies
By Bob Allen A layman active in the resistance to a conservative faction that won control of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1980s has died. Steve Tondera, 79, of Huntsville, Ala., died Feb. 13. A former NASA administrator and…
Passport offers online Lenten series
By Robert Dilday Passport, a 20-year-old student ministry with ties to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, is again offering its “Journey to the Cross” Lenten series on its devotional website. The series, which will run through the first week of Easter,…
Church, CBF responding to Miss. twister
By Jeff Brumley The images and stories from Hattiesburg, Miss., present the devastation the Sunday’s twister brought to the city. But when finally reached by phone in the Mississippi town, Rusty Edwards had to mention the miraculous. “As far as I…
CBF nominee ponders future
By Bob Allen A woman nominated to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s top leadership post says her extensive background in lobbying and public policy would bolster the Fellowship’s holistic missions strategy of targeting critical needs among the world’s most neglected peoples….
CBF, American Baptist leaders meet
By Bob Allen Staff leaders of two national moderate Baptist organizations met Feb. 5 in Atlanta to share ideas and discuss present and future partnerships. Pat Anderson, interim executive of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, said the 1,900-church group that separated…
‘Fresh expressions’ of church in NC
By Robert Dilday About 80 percent of North Carolina’s 9.7 million people don’t attend church and reaching them will require a “mixed economy” of both existing congregations and new forms of church, a group of Baptist leaders was told Feb….