By late morning, the Houston heat was already pressing down like a heavy hand. Sweat beaded on brows, backpacks clung to backs and the air shimmered above the asphalt. Yet, at the Community of Faith ...

1. I didn’t know what it meant to be in a Baptist church. I went to a Baptist church only because our neighbors who gave me a ride took me there. Imagine my surprise when I later learned that an ...

As Brad Walker’s term as president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention nears an end in November, the pastor of Briensburg Baptist Church says he is burdened ...

Life in the Spirit Seminars, for the Odhran Pastoral Area and surrounding parishes, start on Tuesday, September 16, and run for seven consecutive Tuesdays.

Four places are most often associated with the relic of John the Baptist’s head — one is the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, ...

John the Baptist was believed to be buried in Samaria where he was honoured in the 4th century, but the tomb was desecrated by Julian the Apostate. The death of the Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist is ...

Second, this reading has no explicit connection to the resurrection. Jesus doesn’t mourn or raise his cousin, John, from the dead like he does with Lazarus. Instead, Mark’s Gospel tells us that John ...

By Norman P. Aquino, Editor IT FELT like I was inside an oven when I waded into the Jordan River — the same river where John the Baptist once immersed Jesus. The water at Qasr al-Yahud — one of two ...

COMMENTARY: Elevating the Old Testament saints would enhance the Catholic sense of the unity of Scripture and serve as a ...