Tag: adult baptism

  • Brief Book Review: Death by Baptism

    Brief Book Review: Death by Baptism

    Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.

  • Lenten Scrutinies – and some stats

    Here is a chart giving the numbers of adult baptisms and receptions into full communion in the U.S. Catholic Church for the past ten years. Anyone have any idea why adult baptisms are on the decline, especially in the last five years?

  • The one, true, holy, Mennonite Church

    I was pretty tempted to respond to the editor’s invitation to ‘separated’ brothers and sisters with something mildly tongue-in-cheek inviting Catholics to join the one, true, holy, MENNONITE Church.