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...Pray for Baptism. The most notable recent spread of faith healing and glossolalia has been among college-level Roman Catholics. The movement began last year, when three young theology instructors at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh met to pray and found themselves, according to their testimony, simultaneously speaking in tongues. Similar experiments have since been tried at other Catholic schools. At Notre Dame, there is a cell of 30 glossolalia enthusiasts, including students and teachers from nearby St. Mary's College, who meet one night a week for prayer session...
Into the Community. Instead of automatically baptizing children in infancy, Jesuit Theologian Joseph Powers of California's Alma College would postpone the ceremony until the age of ten or twelve. "The whole meaning of baptism," he says, "is not to make a Christian out of a child but to incorporate the individual, at some time in life, into the community of the church." Thus he believes it makes more sense for a child raised in a Christian home to undergo baptism at an age when he can really start believing in the church. This procedure would effectively answer...
Nonetheless, there are some serious objections to total abolition of infant baptism. Philip Hefner of Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology argues that the ceremony marks the entrance of the Christian into the community of faith, and that by baptizing infants the church shows that he is acceptable even when defenseless before...
Presbyterian Leader Rev. Henry Anderson of Illinois defends baptism as a genuine covenant, a "real and authentic religious act, the grace of God's concern for his people through the parents as mediators...
Ibis had his baptism by baptism at 11 a.m. Having graciously consented to serve as the object of the treasure hunt, Ibis settled into the chlorine-scented depths of the Adams pool sustaining life through a primitive papyrus-reed snorkel, a memento of Ibis's original Nile home. From time to time, Ibis gave Treasure Hunt officials the V sign made famous by Winston Churchill in World...