Josh Reynolds is an American football wide beneficiary for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He played college football at Texas A&M and holds the educational’s season getting touchdown record with 13, set in 2014. Reynolds was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft.
Reynolds played for the Illawarra Steelers in the Harold Matthews Cup and afterward the Canterbury group in the SG Ball rivalry prior to advancing to the Toyota Cup in 2008. Read More...
The Bible does not record anyone being baptized by Jesus. There are a couple of verses that seem to indicate that Jesus baptized people, but when we compare Scripture with Scripture, we conclude that Jesus did not personally baptize anyone.
Opening the possibility that Jesus did baptize is Matthew 3:14, where John the Baptist says to Jesus, “I need to be baptized by you.” Taken by itself, John’s statement could imply that Jesus was in the habit of baptizing people in water. Read More...
ROME — Pope Francis has invited LGBT advocates to the Vatican. He has spoken warmly about the place of gay people in the church. He has called for national laws for same-sex civil unions.
But Monday, Francis definitively signaled the limits to his reformist intentions, signing off on a Vatican decree that reaffirms old church teaching and bars priests from blessing same-sex unions.
The pronouncement, issued at a time when some clerics were interested in performing such blessings, leans on the kind of language that LGBT Catholics have long found alienating — and that they had hoped Francis might change. Read More...