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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

• BUBBA among rejected SBC names

  As the Southern Baptist Convention recently weighed changing its name, denominational leaders were bombarded with suggestions—hundreds of them.

  03/02/2012 - By Administrator

• Louisiana College sues over contraceptive mandate

  A Baptist college in Louisiana is suing the federal government over a requirement that religious schools and hospitals cover contraceptives in insurance for their employees, including birth control pills that induce abortion.

  03/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Don’t forget founding values, CBF coordinator says

  Entering into an era of change, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship should not forget the vision, mission and values that have marked the organization’s first 20 years, CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal told the group’s Coordinating Council Feb. 24.

  02/24/2012 - By Administrator

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  CBF leader suggests it is time to revisit group’s ban on hiring gays

  After the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship completes a re-visioning process and selects a new executive coordinator, a first order of business should be revisiting a policy that prohibits the hiring of gays and lesbians, the organization’s top elected officer told leaders.

  02/24/2012 - By Administrator

• Southern Baptists likely to stick with same name, more or less

  A task force is recommending the Southern Baptist Convention maintain its official name but give members of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination the option of calling themselves “Great Commission Baptists.”

  02/22/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  Retiring Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal will direct Mercer University's new Eula Mae and John Baugh Center for Baptist Leadership.

  02/16/2012 - By Administrator