I’m an ordained American Baptist clergyperson who received her academic training from a pontifical Catholic institution…
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Tag: Baptism
Is Being a Christian a Vocation?
Each year, as we enter Holy Week, I inevitably recall two individuals for whom I continue to have a great amount of admiration. Both were RCIA participants, and both—a few days before the beginning of the Paschal Triduum—declined to be baptized, and left the process.
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O Come, Instruction Manual
There is a temptation in these post-Baptism Sundays to view our liturgical work as something of a breather between our “real” work during the Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter seasons.
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Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth
Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.
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New Text of Infant Baptismal Rite Approved
The vote passed with the needed two-thirds majority. 23 voted against the new text. 3 abstained.
Read moreHow Does Pope Francis Baptize?
An account of a baptism by Pope Francis, recently published in America magazine, contains some puzzling features. Here’s a fact check.
Read moreFaithfully Listening to the Assembly of the Faithful
Last March, I wrote that I’d like to see the conclave elect a pope who loves being part of great conversations. With the call from Pope Francis to the church to talk about how the Church relates to families, I think I got what I prayed for — and his questionnaire is filled with liturgical issues for us to wrestle with.
Read moreThe Baptism of Prince George, Senator Paul Simon, and Me
Britain’s Prince George, third in line to the throne, was baptized in a small private service at St. James Palace. But a conversation I had years ago with the late Senator Paul Simon makes me wonder what his baptism might have been like, had it happened elsewhere . . .
Read moreBaptismal practice and theology in 13th-century Italy
The 2013 Aquinas Lecture at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, given by Augustine Thompson, O.P., is a fascinating presentation of the baptismal theology and practice in Northern Italy in the 13th century.
Read moreCatholic and Protestant Ecumenical Recognition of Baptism
Representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Christian Reformed Church in North America, Reformed Church in America and United Church of Christ will sign the document.
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