Why it's a good choice: This wonderful text is ideally suited for a baptism, with its focus on our hope on God and all the wonders that he offers us. The words of this hymn were written around ...

The disturbing incident began on Dec 30 when the baby's family sent a group text inviting relatives to the infant's baptism. Unbeknownst to them, one of the recipients was Teran, due to a family ...

Baptism was not a new idea. There is evidence that a monastic group called the Essenes used baptism at their monastery at Qumran as a type of ritual cleansing. Qumran was in the Jordan wilderness ...