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How to Best Help Small Church Pastors | [View online]( [Give Now]( Advertisement [Christianity Today Connection]( [Home]( [Our Latest]( [Subscribe]( Wednesday, July 17, 2019 [The Christian CBD Changes Its Name]( [The Christian CBD Changes Its Name]( Christian Book Distributors drops its initials to avoid confusion with the cannabis product. Kate Shellnutt Christian Book Distributors—a direct-mail cataloger and online retailer—has gone by the letters CBD. But the company [announced]( last month it would drop the abbreviation and the word distributors from its name in response to the now-common use of CBD to refer to cannabidiol. The letters will no longer appear beneath its logo, an open book with flipping pages. “Across the country, people see signs for ‘CBD sold here,’ which creates brand confusion,” the Massachusetts-based ... 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