(RNS) The sprinkling-style baptism of a Dayton, Ohio, infant—a scene heartwarming and commonplace for Catholics and many mainline Protestants—is touching off accusations of doctrinal heresy in the ...

James Smith Coleman was one of the most important Baptist leaders in 19th-century Kentucky and left a tremendous legacy in the Bluegrass State.

Along with ritual immersion, John the Baptist called people to moral reform. His essential message, like the prophets of Israel before him, was one of repentance from sin in anticipation of God’s ...

(RNS) The baptism of a Dayton, Ohio, infant — a scene heartwarming and commonplace for Catholics and mainline Protestants — is touching off accusations of doctrinal heresy in the evangelical world. In ...

An introduction to Baptist churches, which together form the fifth largest Christian group in the world: their history, organisation and beliefs, including baptism of believers by full immersion.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X POTTSTOWN>> The winter of 1857-58 was brutally cold. Temperatures stayed so low for so long that ...

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 ...

A version of this story appeared in the Higher Ground newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive Higher Ground delivered directly to your inbox each Sunday. The Southern Baptist ...

SBC leaders hope newly launched Baptism Sunday will help boost numbers. Weather permitting, 10 members of a new Southern Baptist church on Cape Cod will be dipping in the ocean this weekend, but it ...

There ought to be but three Christian denominations in the world,” an Episcopal bishop once said. ‘The Roman Catholics standing on one side for the authority of the church, and the Baptists standing ...