Beneath a cloudless sky on a recent Sunday afternoon, John Oswald made a public profession of his Christian faith as he stood in the waters of Lake Michigan. Oswald, 43, of Libertyville, is a member ...

At an Easter Vigil service last week at St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church in Westlake Village, 30 converts sat in a pool of water and lay back under the surface. One at a time, their brown robes ...

Back in the old days when Alaska had summer, I got up on a bright, warm morning and headed for the Daily News on foot. I had been reading a memoir by a prominent New York writer and pieces of it were ...

In the New Testament, Matthew 3:13-17 recounts John the Baptist's ministry of preaching and baptizing in the name of repentance to prepare the way of the Lord. Theologian David F. Wells, in his ...

A parish priest has been sacked after touching two people without their consent and stripping down to his boxer shorts to conduct a “full immersion” baptism. A Diocese of Hereford disciplinary ...

A married priest has been sacked after touching two people without their consent and holding a "full immersion" baptism wearing nothing but his underwear. Revd Clive Roger Evans, 62, stripped down to ...

Reverend Clive Roger Evans, 62, of Hereford, touched a woman's bottom and stripped down to his boxer shorts to carry out the baptism, a disciplinary tribunal found Revd Clive Roger Evans, 62, ...