Last Sunday morning there were six or seven or eight baptisms at church. Really neat. Later that day, I was visiting with Mick, my brother in Nebraska, about the service, and Mick mentioned a baptism ...

Mizzou forward Trent Pierce, left, holds his breath during his baptism ceremony that took place last June at Hulen Lake in Columbia. Pierce was baptized during his childhood but decided to go through ...

Trent Pierce’s freshman year of college was a baptism by fire. Missouri’s highest-ranked men’s basketball recruit in six years struggled to find a role on the court. Then, he missed several weeks with ...