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baptism

[bap-tiz-uhm] / ˈbæp tɪz əm /


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Or churches that get fixated on monthly baptism rates instead of tending to the spiritual needs of their flocks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

A pastor has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter after a man died during a baptism ceremony in Birmingham.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

French ice dancers Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry are poised to win Olympic gold in Milan despite a baptism of fire in their debut season with accusations of control and manipulation flying.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Doctors like Mel King, whose neurodivergence manifests as open, radical caring and diagnostic precision, or Whitaker, who was revealed to be unhoused himself at the end of his first season baptism by disaster.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

His first sermon in August waxed great and long on the subject of baptism.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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