Local historian Keith Parker shared a photo of a believer’s baptism which illustrates how some 1950s Christians in the Dunn’s Rock community practiced their faith outdoors by necessity.

A scheduled vote on making baptism by immersion a requirement for church membership did not come to a vote at Henderson Hills Baptist Church Sunday. Instead, the church’s executive pastor, Kim Swyden, ...

BUCHAREST -- The death of a 6-week-old infant after he was submerged while being baptized has sparked public outrage in Romania and led to calls for the centuries-old rite to be changed. The drama of ...

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I am a practicing Christian who is very happy to have been born in the 21st Century when baptism by immersion was done in clean swimming pools. A disturbing event I witnessed last Saturday at the ...