Anticipating another New Baptist Covenant gathering

Late next year, a second major gathering will be held under the banner of a Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant. That is about all that is known at this point.The highly successful event held in Atlanta in the winter of 2008 drew thousands of Baptists from across...

Silent, but dearly

Each year during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship annual assembly, a silent auction is held to benefit artists and ministries in various parts of the world. Tina Bailey, one of CBF’s global missions field personnel (i.e., missionary) in Southeast Asia, is both...

Same song, different meeting

“We need more money and more young people.”This week I’ve met with a church staff, some of my own directors, the Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society board and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council. I could have gone to a dozen more...

CBF structure to get studied look

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship moderator Hall Bass of Arkansas told the group’s governing body yesterday that he has appointed a 14-member task force to look at the CBF organizational model that has evolved over the past two decades. Pastor David Hull (pictured)...

Taking Aim at Baptist Bureaucracies

The Great Commission Task Force report that was overwhelmingly approved by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention on June 15 has its roots in a chapel address given by Southeastern Seminary President Danny Akin in April 2009. In that address, but not in the...