Here’s where John the Baptist comes back on the scene. His call to repentance means to change your mind. I used to think God was the Big Guy upstairs who was looking to squash me when I messed up.

June 24 is the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and the gospel of the day talks about his circumcision (cfr. Lk 1,57-66.80) which, at that time, meant his entry into the covenant ...

Our knowledge of the figure of John the Baptist is very limited. We have only those references to him in the Christian gospels, where he stands alongside of Jesus. We also have references to him ...

A call to repentance and consecration. From the wilderness, John the Baptist earned his nickname by “preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” (Mark 1:4).

The second episode of legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese's Fox Nation series "The Saints" focuses on John the Baptist, a pillar of Christianity and the patron saint of converts.

T his text’s theme is John the Baptist’s theme: repentance. The different groups in Luke 3:10, 12, and 14 are responding to John’s call to live out (make fruit out of) their repentance.

John, a distant relative of Jesus — their mothers were kin, according to the Bible — was a fiery preacher with a message of repentance and a considerable following.

John preaches a “baptism of repentance” whose purpose is “the forgiveness of sins” (v. 4). Those who came out to him did so “confessing their sins” as they are baptized (v. 5).

John the Baptist rejects this sense of entitlement, “Do not say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones” (Mt ...