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  Former SBC officer arrested in protest

  Wiley Drake, a former Southern Baptist Convention official was arrested May 4 for kneeling and praying outside the White House on behalf of blind Chinese human-rights activist Chen Guangcheng.

  05/07/2012 - By Administrator

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  New Mexico Baptists ponder future of Glorieta

  Around 30 people from New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma gathered April 12 at Baptist Convention of New Mexico’s building to offer suggestions for the future of Glorieta Conference Center.

  04/26/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  "The Story Lives On" is the theme of the Woman's Missionary Union Missions Celebration and annual meeting, June 17-18, in the La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom at the Ernest Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

  04/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Southern Baptists to probe Richard Land’s Trayvon Martin remarks

  Southern Baptist leaders will investigate whether their top ethicist and public policy director plagiarized racially charged remarks about the Trayvon Martin case that many say set back the denomination's efforts on racial reconciliation.

  04/24/2012 - By Administrator

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  McKissic says SBC should repudiate and/or replace Richard Land

  An influential black pastor says the Southern Baptist Convention should repudiate remarks about race by the head of its ethics commission, and if Richard Land does not repent he should be fired.

  04/19/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  Six years after leaving Shorter College to become top missions administrator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Rob Nash is returning to the classroom at McAfee School of Theology.

  04/14/2012 - By Administrator

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  GuideStone Funds honored with prestigious financial award

  GuideStone Funds has won one of the most prestigious awards in the financial world for mutual fund families with up to $40 billion in assets—the 2012 Lipper Award for Best Overall Small Fund Group in the U.S.

  04/13/2012 - By Administrator

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  Pat Anderson named CBF interim coordinator

  The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s officers and personnel committee have chosen former CBF Moderator Pat Anderson of Florida to serve as the interim executive coordinator, beginning July 1.

  04/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  A Knoxville, Tenn., layman has been nominated as moderator-elect of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

  03/30/2012 - By Administrator

• Planner defends Baptist sexuality conference

  David Gushee

  A lead planner of an upcoming Baptist sexuality conference says the event has nothing to do with disagreement among Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leadership about the CBF’s policy against hiring gays.

  03/22/2012 - By Administrator

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  Religious re-branding hard to do and not always successful, experts say

  Did leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention hurt their missionary cause by opting not to change the denomination's name to something a bit more, well, marketable?

  03/08/2012 - By Administrator

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  Vestal defends CBF hiring policy

  Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal defended the organization’s 12-year-old ban on hiring gays in a statement March 8.

  03/08/2012 - By Administrator