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The Starting Place
We often approach baptism like an institution obsessed only with our own rules rather than as reflecting the dream of God.
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Becoming People of Peace
We’ve been given a way out of this mess: The Baptismal Covenant. We just need to see that we already know the way.
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Baptized in Love
The Baptism of Jesus is often treated like the necessary means of getting Jesus into the right space with the cosmos: that if he doesn’t get dunked, he’s stuck. Or else we treat it like the perfunctory reason behind our religious rite. But baptism is way more than that. It’s the start of something awesome.…
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Repent and Become
And here, at the font, is where we begin. We get the chance to repent and return. We get the chance to realign and to be given a new opportunity. To shake that Etch-a-Sketch we call a life and try again. We get to go through baptism once, but we can keep getting wet. We…