Residents of Flint, Michigan, still don’t drink the water. They drink bottled water. They use filters to purify the water that flows from their faucets. But after 10 full years, and much assurance ...

Yet, at the Community of Faith Church’s first-ever outdoor baptism for the homeless, “Alive by Faith,” a long line wound toward the portable baptismal pools, where one by one, men and women stepped ...

One afternoon during this long pandemic, several of us from church meet on the bank of a river for a baptism. A deacon begins our service with a water prayer from our hymnal. “God of grace, creator of ...

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 ...

Fr Dominic McGrattan responds to recent comments by former President Mary McAleese that baptising babies represents a ...