baptism

We are as reliant on grace as our bodies are on water. 

What if we did asystematic theology?

Do baptizer and baptized constitute a hierarchy? How was Jesus’ baptism fulfilling all righteousness?

River baptisms are becoming a casualty of polluted waters.

Peter Leithart argues that the sacrament’s violence is surprisingly good news.

Faith and water conservation in the desert

A conversation with author Kaitlin Curtice about poetry, women as water protectors, baptism, land acknowledgments, and more

This might mean changing the order of certain elements.

We say these words a lot. Lately I’ve noticed what it looks like when we follow through.

Jesus knows he’s part of a history, a people’s longing and dreams.

John the Baptist's world and ours

Ben Dueholm offers a humble apologetics—of faithful actions, not beliefs.

The Red Sea, the baptistery, and the birth canal

What do our baptismal vows have to do with safety?

Each January the lectionary invites us to remember the invisible network of faith.

Willie James Jennings writes about tangible things—bodies, incarceration, healing—with graceful language that’s hard to pin down.

We tend to think biology matters, and matters very much—except when we don’t.

Denominational meetings can be difficult. My Sunday school class reminds me what's at stake.

I had work to do the other day, but I set it aside to reread Elie Wiesel’s Night as a way to mark the great man’s death and remember his life.

While I was struck by passages I anticipated, like his account of how his belief was shattered upon seeing the furnaces of Auschwitz—“Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever”—it was an unexpected line that caught me, given a current news story I’d been following.