COMMENTARY: The canonization centennial of two influential French priests illustrates new light from the marvelous feast of ...

Civil Rights hero Bernard Lafayette addresses American Baptist College graduates, including formerly incarcerated valedictorian Cyrus Wilson.

Budde functioned as modern-day John the Baptist ... began preaching by the Jordan River. Soon this John character would baptize thousands of people in a symbolic water ceremony of repentance.

John the Baptist is almost always there alongside him ... After all, aren’t we told that this is a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins? The answer is two-fold. Christ’s baptism is an ...

It is not completely clear whether the linking ‘therefore’ points us back to the verses from Isaiah that Luke has just quoted, or the fact that John ‘preached a baptism of repentance ... in response ...

History knows him as John the Baptist – a fisher of men ... His message was radical for its time, calling people to repentance and urging them to prepare for the coming of a higher kingdom ...

His message was one of repentance and preparation for the coming of the ... was ruler of Galilee at the time when John the Baptist was preaching. This Herod was married to the daughter of Aretas, an ...

John Muir suspended him for the rest of the week. But Evangelist Fred Phelps, who had turned down an appointment to West Point to devote his life to preaching, was not to be discouraged by a ...