The nation’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, saw an increase in the number of baptisms last year along with a rise in donations. Congregations affiliated with the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Ruth Graham, The New York Times Company Russell Moore’s baptism in 1983 was a decorous occasion, or at least as decorous as possible when the main event ...

(RNS) — In February 2021, Amina Massai Jefferson-Motley dressed in a white shirt and pants for her baptism. Her mother stood nearby as an associate minister of First Baptist Church of Glenarden asked ...