In some evangelical churches, a once-staid ritual is returning to its informal roots — and things sometimes get “a little rowdy” along the way. Waves crashing over Paul Allen and Jimmy Scroggins of ...

"I don’t think my feet touched the floor at the Easter vigil of 1994," recalls Jennifer Pixler of Maryland. "I felt such love, knowing that God was wiping out all my sins when I was baptized." ...

(RNS) — In February 2021, Amina Massai Jefferson-Motley dressed in a white shirt and pants for her baptism. Her mother stood nearby as an associate minister of First Baptist Church of Glenarden asked ...

The early Church Fathers consistently affirmed the Catholic (and scriptural) belief about baptism, viewing it as a sacrament for the remission of sins and the regeneration of the soul. I aim to offer ...

ENGLEWOOD -- To be baptized, the six members of Foundation Church didn't go down to the river or immerse themselves in the chilly Gulf. They got in the hot tub. "We've warmed it up to 90 degrees," ...

A. Baptism was instituted, very probably, about the time Our Lord was baptized by St. John, and its reception was commanded when after His resurrection Our Lord said to His Apostles: "All power is ...