On May 28, 2023, 4,166 people were baptized at Baptize SoCal, marking the largest water baptism in US history. Now, get ready for Baptize California, uniting churches on May 19th in the world's ...

Peruvian Indigenous spirituality joins Spanish Catholicism, the latter being cemented onto what was already there. A celestial Christ looks over a terrestrial river possessing a Runasimi name – ...

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 ...

This has been an unusual and exciting week: my congregation is about to baptize someone in our sanctuary for the first time in about eight years! For many churches, such a lengthy gap of time between ...

Just as Jesus’ baptism launched his public ministry, our own baptisms ordinate us to a life of humble obedience and costly service. All four Gospels tell the story of Jesus’ baptism, as if every ...