II continue to enjoy DreamSeeker Magazine and read the most recent issue (Winter 2008) in one sitting.

Different customs associated with baptism are particularly intriguing to me. I think Quakers do not baptize or for that matter observe any of the other practices which we Mennonites call ordinances.

My thought about adult baptism and the severe persecution it elicited in olden days is that it was really an expression of Christians’ desire to be free from the rule of the state. Thus in our day, the tendency to mix what we call patriotism and religion is the real issue—not whether we baptize in infancy or adulthood.
—Dorothy Cutrell, Deland, Florida