Wade In The Water... Jesus???
This Sunday the lectionary calendar spotlights the Baptism of Jesus -- a seminal event that marks him as "my Son, the Beloved." For each of us as Christians, baptism is also a critical rite of passage that indelibly marks us too as God's beloved. But as team member Leah Lonsbury notes in this installment of The Immediate Word, all too often we treat it with the same degree of permanence and commitment as we do our new year's resolutions -- and that's if we can get past the endless theological squabbling over what constitutes "proper" baptism.