Baptismal Fonts Part 1

7th into the 12th Century

Most of us don’t give the font by the door in our church a second glance - we walk right past it. We forget that our Christian life began right there. We don’t remember it so we ignore it.

It was not always so. In the early years, baptism was rightly considered the most important event in a church and in a person’s life. In a pagan culture it marked you …