Michael Sean Winters has just posted about Sarah Palin and her possible “apostasy” by being baptized twice, first as an infant in the Catholic Church and later as an adult in the Assembly of God ...

The Rev. Warwick James waded into the blue mosaic font, water climbing up his knees, and invited the catechumens to join him. As they stepped one by one into the pool, he poured holy water over them ...

A scheduled vote on making baptism by immersion a requirement for church membership did not come to a vote at Henderson Hills Baptist Church Sunday. Instead, the church’s executive pastor, Kim Swyden, ...

II Samuel 23:5 Last week we mentioned a few of the covenants that God made with man. One that we didn’t mention was the Davidic covenant in II Samuel 23:5. The new covenant that Jesus introduced in ...

Lisa Matt was 16 years old when she began life-guarding at the pool in the Lancaster YWCA at East Orange and Lime streets. From 1980 to 1984, she oversaw lap swimming, swim lessons and water aerobics.

At the end of his magisterial survey of the quest of the historical Jesus in the 19th century, Albert Schweitzer recalled Jesus’ command to every Christian to follow him, and added, “to those who obey ...

I was baptized on Palm Sunday in 1981. I wasn't yet a year old. That's how it was done in my childhood church; the sacrament was administered to adorable babies and confirmed by awkward 13-year-olds.