Dolly Parton was baptized when she was 12 years old. As a girl, she’d had a hard time wrapping her mind around religion and connecting with God. But when she finally did, she was ecstatic. She found ...

A 21-year-old man drowned an hour after his baptism while trying to rescue a teenage girl struggling to stay afloat in a north Texas lake. Lincer Lopez had just been baptized in Lake Waxahachie on ...

WAXAHACHIE, Texas (WFAA) - An hour after a 21-year-old man was baptized in a Texas lake, police say he died saving a teenage girl from his church group from drowning. Lincer Lopez, 21, visited Lake ...

WAXAHACHIE, Texas — A 21-year-old man drowned Saturday afternoon while attempting to rescue a teen in distress at Lake Waxahachie. According to the Waxahachie Police Department, police and fire rescue ...

When 16-year-old Zach Nawyn-Hellinga stood before the congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Okemos in January, he wasn’t just reaffirming his baptism — he was claiming his name, his identity and ...