Finding Their Faith Beneath the Surface; Immersion Baptistery Is Central to Worship at Ashburn Church

The Washington Post | September 4, 2005| | Copyright

The first thing people see and hear upon entering St. David's Episcopal Church in Ashburn is the water. It is churning and gurgling in an immersion baptistery smack-dab in the middle of the center aisle.

"The baptistery . . . is at the center of our life," said the Rev. Stephen McWhorter, St. David's rector.

Nearly every rite in this parish of nearly 1,000 congregants takes place around this one-of-a-kind baptistery, a particularly unusual feature for an Episcopal church.

Although most infant baptisms at St. David's take place at the adjacent font, almost all baptisms of teenagers and adults ...

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