Good day, Kanabec County. I hope you all are quietly reminded that the world which God creates has a mind of its own. Mother Earth or Father Sky brings us ...

Nearly 500,000 pilgrims of all denominations visit this site annually, which is under the protection of the Baptism Site Commission. According to the Gospel (John 1:28), this is “Bethany Beyond ...

On Jan. 21, we Mennonites — along with the Amish, Hutterites, Brethren in Christ, and others — celebrated our 500th birthday.

By Michael M. Canaris Astute churchgoers likely recently noted that the weekend of Jan. 18-19 marked the Second Sunday in ...

No sooner had an educated churchwoman asked me about how many years make a Platinum Jubilee than a deacon of a local Baptist church asked me which moment, the hour, the day or the year of the first ...

Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, popularly known as Mormons, have announced the location of its ...

As I write this, it is the 12th of January 2025. It is the first Sunday after the Epiphany. The Epiphany took place on the ...

Speaking on 10 January after presiding at the dedication of the Church of the Baptism of the Lord, built at Al-Maghtas on the banks of the River Jordan for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

That is the meaning of baptism. There are limits to the theology of geography. Our souls are not physical places; our souls are spiritual realities. But biblical geography teaches us that there is ...

In the first verse of “I’d Rather Be Me” from the musical Mean Girls, there’s a note that’s frankly a bit too high for your average voice to sustain. It requires a clear tone and solid ...

Baptism is a fundamental rite in the life of every Christian, and this year, in the evocative Sistine Chapel, Pope Francis administered the sacrament to 21 newborns, children of Vatican employees and ...

Notably, for most in the Anabaptist tradition, the refusal to wield the sword in defense of the state was a theological affirmation, not simply a moral conviction, meaning nonviolence says something ...