has the power to profoundly transform our understanding of identity. On a true/false test, many of us would be able to mark a nice capital T by the sentence “Jesus was baptized.” But let’s speed past the fact that it merely happened and instead begin to think together about the strangeness of that event. Some of us know the story well, but if we take a few minutes to hear it with fresh ears, it may sound … bizarre. And if we’re going to make sense of what it has to do with identity,