baptism

Image of bubbles beneath the blue-green water with a misty blue sky above

Baptism

By Matt Thomas | January 24, 2022

The still surface lifted by morning fog
as if a bed sheet
that I’m beneath, in the silt, hair reaching,
skin frog-throat white

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Baptisms for the Dead

By Hillary White | June 23, 2015

When is a choice not a choice?

Anna Vesta Rogers

Immersion Therapy

By Allison Jane Smith | April 2, 2014

A second, Cambodian baptism.

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Heresy at Gethsemane

By Ashley Makar | April 10, 2013

I found myself at the foot of an olive tree, my body folding into a crouch.

Clouds and light facing west down the Beagle Channel. Photo by author.

The End of the Earth

By Michael Snyder | July 18, 2011

Bringing the gospel where it isn’t really wanted.

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Silver Trumpets

By Jeremy B. Jones | February 17, 2009

The rise and fall of a cussin’ campus Christian rock star.

Icon of Saint Simeon the One-Eyed Tanner

Wayward Sheep

By Ashley Makar | August 23, 2008

More schooled than churched, she wanted to try dying to the self, to grope for the Spirit under the water, and come up in grace. It was more awkward than that.

The World Trade Center, September 11, 2001

The Beginning, or the End?

By Molly Chilson | September 26, 2001

After 9-11, nothing will be the same — including one mother’s faith.

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Winter of My Disbelief

By A. Wolf-Powers | July 12, 2001

Baptized in the blood of the lamb, the author smells only the sweet scent of chlorine.