Russell Moore’s baptism in 1983 was a decorous occasion, or at least as decorous as possible when the main event consists of being plunged underwater in front of one’s entire church. The ceremony took ...

(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 ...

In some evangelical churches, a once-staid ritual is returning to its informal roots — and things sometimes get “a little rowdy” along the way. Waves crashing over Paul Allen and Jimmy Scroggins of ...