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on baptism (2 of 2)
…baptism makes real to us that God’s heart overflows for us and with us, enveloping all our joys and sorrows, saturating all our pain and grief—and in a mystery we don’t understand but can experience, redeeming it all: making it all whole, and new, and alive…

on baptism (1 of 2)
I think about baptism as a ritual that proclaims that the truest thing about someone is that they are beloved by God. And it proclaims that God’s love is as enduring and reliable—and alive—as the waves that crash on the shore.