Notably, Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ (1437-45) has been selected by three artists. David Hockney calls it a “truly a magnificent picture”, while Antony Gormley says its ...

Martin Gayford: When did you first see Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ? David Hockney: At home, we had some books that must have been from just before the war, about people and places.

High drama has its place in all art forms – but when it comes to ambushing our deepest feelings, less is more.

Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: "Baptism is the sacrament of ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity... Titus 2:13-14 For most Catholic ...

The gospel lectionary reading for the First Sunday of Epiphany/the Baptism of Christ in this Year C is Luke 3.15–17, 21–22. We have recently been exploring Luke 3 during Advent, having read the first ...

Francesca Dominici is the Clarence James Gamble professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Data Science ...

On the other side are those who reject the idea of infant baptism. They see baptism as a step that occurs after a person has made a conscious decision to follow Christ, where the baptism is an outward ...

That’s an important part of the symbolism of baptism: that we go down into the place of death, the deep waters where man cannot live, to rise again. We are baptized into the death of Christ ...

The Briton is expected to take the Italian constructor back to their championship-winning days in the coming season. Hence, ahead of Hamilton’s entry, the Vice President of Ferrari, Piero Ferrari ...

The Sunday lectionary reading for Epiphany 1, which is the Baptism of Christ, is Luke 3.15–17 and 21–22. The reading feels odd, since it was back in Advent when we read the previous verses in Luke 3 ...