“We rejoice that God is using Southern Baptist churches to reach people with the gospel. We celebrate the upward trends in baptisms that we haven’t seen in the past 30 years. These ACP results ...

The Southern Baptist Convention has witnessed another year of membership decline but has also seen worship attendance and baptisms increase, according to a recent report. According to a report ...

A Kentucky Baptist pastor had a memorable “last hurrah” in the U.S. Army. Brigade chaplain, Maj. Tyler Shields, the senior ...

The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, lost more than a quarter of a million members ...

Leaders celebrate a quarter-million baptisms in 2024, the most since before the pandemic. The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) continued its 18-year membership skid last year, while churches in ...

Here a Lutheran theologian defends “believers’ baptism of infants” while a Southern Baptist theologian voices anxiety over evangelistic compulsion of the very young. In recent years the time ...

to make oneself pure ... to be right with God. John the Baptist, of course, is known for having practiced baptism. But then, so did lots of other people. We hear of other groups around this time ...

The window, depicting St. John the Baptist’s baptism, was restored after the closure of St. John the Baptist Church in 2012. The relocation honors the shared heritage and neighborhood of the two ...

Some historians have thus considered that John the Baptist may have been influenced by this movement. Baptism has been the subject of immense theological reflection, largely based on the numerous ...

Convert baptisms surged last year to the highest level seen in nearly three decades, propelling global membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints past 17.5 million. The Utah ...