Four-month-old Erin Wahl appeared wholly unimpressed with the notion that she had just secured a place in God's kingdom. That's OK. Baptism isn't about choosing God, said the Rev. Donald Allman, ...

Evangelist Bryce Crawford shared a special moment between him and his now wife, Maddy, at their wedding earlier this month.

Baptism is performed in a variety of ways by different Christian faiths. Some baptize in infancy while others wait until adulthood. Some rites involve sprinkling or pouring water on the head; others, ...

Rick Warren, in his book The Purpose Driven Life, declared, “It’s not about you.” Recently, a South Florida pastor answered a South Florida Sun-Sentinel Faith and Values page question on Christian ...

The New Testament tells us baptism is the time God grants salvation on the believing, repentant sinner. Every New Testament text that refers to the meaning of baptism, shows this to be the case.

A statistic that I have been hearing a lot is that 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. In my case it has been 3 in 7. So, as you can imagine, I have spent a good amount of time trying to come to ...

Pope baptizes 16 infants in the Sistine Chapel on feast of the Baptism of Our Lord and reminds parents and godparents of the need for their faith witness. VATICAN CITY (EWTN News/CNA)—Pope Benedict ...

"Behold!" That's the traditional opening of today's reading from Isaiah. "Behold!" means that God wants us to look at something so carefully that we realize we may not quite capture all that it means.

McAleese desribes baptism as a kind of recruitment tool that ignores how children, as they mature, should be able to freely decide their own religious identity, noting that canon law acknowledges no ...

“The people were filled with expectation.” That is how Luke described the excitement around John the Baptist. When do we experience that sort of public emotion? Doesn’t it seem easier to unite around ...