No one can be baptized a Roman Catholic, a Presbyterian, Baptist, or an Episcopalian. We are baptized as Christians within certain traditions. Those traditions are meant to bring about our spiritual transformation not used as some set of regulations to keep the devil away or correct other people’s mistakes.

We were baptized. We experience our own wildernesses where our trust in God is tested. We die on our crosses, giving up our own will. We are resurrected over and over in this life. Then we bring others into this story wherein life begins to make more sense.