baptism

Our experience of the church’s divisions, one felt acutely at the Eucharist, should inspire us to a hopeful longing for Jesus’ healing.

At Christ's baptism, heaven opens and our access to God is inaugurated. We exiled children of Adam and Eve are called beloved.

Shawn Strout is clearly and decisively on the side of preserving Holy Baptism as the sacrament of inclusion and Holy Eucharist as the sacrament of nourishment for Christ’s body.

Being in the ocean, riding a wave, can convince you to believe that God is good even while you experience his power.

Do our current baptism practices commodify children? Might there be something to learn from the old rite for "churching" after childbirth.

Many parishes will have baptisms this Sunday, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In Baptism, water is poured. The new Christian dies and rises with Christ. Grace happens. What, though, is the role of the Covenant added to many Baptismal rites, for example in TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada?

In part one I made the case that evangelism and salvation must be reunited in our thinking. A part of the core nature of...

When I was a young evangelical on the Canterbury Trail, the liturgical calendar gave my faith structure and meaning in a way I had...

Fr. Matthew Olver, in his essay “Unity’s Fire,” gives us a powerful account of why the question of Christian unity stands central to the...

The Rev. Charles Hoffacker reviews The Vowed Life: The Promise and Demand of Baptism.