“Baptism reminds us that there’s no ladder to holiness to climb, no self-improvement plan to follow. It’s just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, our apathy, our fear, our prejudice, our anger, our hurt, and our despair.” ― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church Readings: Genesis 1: 1-5 Mark 1: 4-11 Beginning with Beloved: A Blessing – by Jan Richardson |