A 19-page report titled “Living Out Our Baptism” accompanied the summary Bishop Walsh provided in his letter. “The overall ...
“If the first step of Christian obedience is to be baptized, wouldn’t delaying baptism be an act of disobedience? I don’t think so. In fact, I’d argue there are at least four reasons why it’s wise to ...
When members voted to change the bylaws at Houston’s Second Baptist Church in 2023, a single sentence that seemingly slipped by most people put the church at odds with its own faith: “Members are not ...
Houston's Second Baptist is a church at legal war with its members. Who will win - and at what cost?
For nearly 50 years, the Rev. Ed Young led a Houston conservative megachurch that now boasts 94,000 congregants, $1 billion in assets and high-profile members like Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, leading oil ...
For Christina Mines, director of evangelization and catechesis for the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario, the moment that moved her most at her children’s baptisms wasn’t where most might expect: the ...
Camellia Lottie Shaw, a devoted home economics teacher, community leader, and first lady of White Rock Baptist Church, died Sept. 10. She was 91. Her life centered on faith, service, and community, ...
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 ...
Houston's Second Baptist Church is being accused of blocking employees from receiving emails from members of the congregation who sued the megachurch leaders over corruption allegations. The Jeremiah ...
An independent Baptist church in Indianapolis has defended a sermon in which church members called for the deaths of people in the LGBTQ+ community. On July 3, preacher Justin Zhong said in a post on ...
The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Friday consecrated a new church at a place on the banks of the Jordan River that the Catholic Church officially recognizes as the site ...
The Jan. 10 inauguration of a vast church on the very spot where Jesus Christ was baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan River was an event of significant symbolic importance, both spiritually ...
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 ...
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