Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“We are truly the holy people of God, even if, due to our sins, we are not yet a people fully united,” the Holy Father said Jan. 20, adding that “the mercy of God, which works in baptism, is stronger ...

Since the beginning of Christianity, baptism and Jesus’ resurrection have been tied closely together. Easter Sunday — the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of Christ — has been a traditional ...

The Bible repeatedly and undeniably connects baptism to redemption and salvation. It also closely identifies baptism and justification. Recently, I realized this all the more, in answering a ...

In the best of our Baptist traditions, baptism is both an individual act and a communal act.

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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Leaders from over thirty church denominations and Christian organizations in the U.S. will gather in Savannah, Georgia for the annual Forum of Christian Churches Together (CCT) on ...

A prominent Catholic recently argued in the Irish Times for a new category of victim those subjected to infant baptism ...

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 ...