(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 ...

Lakeview Baptist Church members held a baptism ceremony at Lake Ella, reviving a historic tradition in Tallahassee.

New rules also loosen restrictions on baptism, divorce, and parents of teenagers. For more than a decade, the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board (IMB) disqualified candidates ...

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 ...

FLEMINGTON - Cherryville Baptist Church held its annual riverside baptism Sunday morning. This is the third year the church has done the riverside baptism, which took place alongside the Raritan River ...

POTTSTOWN>> The winter of 1857-58 was brutally cold. Temperatures stayed so low for so long that by February the Schuylkill River at Pottstown was frozen solid. With ice stretching unbroken from bank ...