baptize
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The story begins with two young Mormon women on a mission to baptize converts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
He then excused himself to help baptize a woman near the stage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
The basilica Mass during the vigil of Christianity’s most important day has become an occasion for pontiffs to baptize several adults from around the world.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
“I now baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” he intoned with a subtle southern twang.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2022
We were taught how to baptize in case of emergency.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Miraculous moments in the story, such as water welling from a rock where Patrick later baptizes people, play out in a quiet tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
But in an explanatory note accompanying its decision, it recalled that when a priest baptizes someone, it is actually Christ performing the sacrament, not the community.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Arkansas baptizes Texas in the cool, refreshing waters of SEC dominance.
From Fox News ● Sep. 12, 2021
The van that takes her from site to site is her conveyance; it is also her home — one she baptizes “Vanguard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
With financial help from her boyfriend, she baptizes seven-year-old Diana.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Vermeer was born in Delft amid the Wars of Religion and baptized in the Calvinist Reformed Church.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
A month after losing his mother, Mpoyi was baptized at chapel held in the school gym.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
The first missionary arrived on Easter Island in 1864: By 1868 all the islanders had been baptized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
He knows the rules better than most baptized Catholics.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
One Sunday at a camp-meeting, when Gabriel was twelve years old and was to be baptized, Deborah and Florence stood on the banks of a river along with all the other folks and watched him.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
What Mr. Porter said he did remember was wading into the church’s pool and baptizing himself — or, as he claims, having his head held down in the font by “something.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
We like to merge worlds to create really absurd situations, so she was like, ‘What if it’s the NBA slam dunk contest, but with deacons baptizing babies at church?’
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
“I had one child in the elevator, the other I’m baptizing, and tomorrow we have a heart operation,” Tkachuk said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
When asked what he would say if he were baptizing someone as a newly devout Bitcoiner, maybe in the warm waters of South Beach, Melder ad-libbed.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2022
“And I drink ‘long life to your resolution’, Teddy,” cried Jo, baptizing him with a splash of lemonade, as she waved her glass and beamed approvingly upon him.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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