A new study suggests that the rite doesn’t bind young Christians to a certain level of faith commitment, but to a faith community. Most researchers studying religious trends among young people tend to ...

A Baptist church in South Carolina baptized 141 new believers last Sunday, a feat that its pastor remarked was "unimaginable." First Baptist Church of Simpsonville, a multisite church in Simpsonville, ...

Partisans of infant baptism probe a middle way. Supporters of believers’ baptism worry about youth. Here a Lutheran theologian defends “believers’ baptism of infants” while a Southern Baptist ...

I recently spent time at a well-known prayer retreat where believers gather to seek healing, repentance, and a closer walk with God. It was there where I met a fellow believer whose passion for ...

The controversy over Rodney Kennedy’s decision to baptize a baby has been fascinating. The prominent American Baptist pastor told RNS that he is “no longer interested whether confession of faith comes ...

Two years ago, when my middle child was ten, he announced that he was ready to explore baptism. Over the course of his life Wick has watched many people enter the fellowship of the church. He’s sung ...

AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) While Israel has long claimed that Jesus was baptized on the Israeli side of the river, increasingly, scholars are lining up to support archaeological research showing the baptism ...