CNN.com - Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism - Oct 31, 2005

Churches do not often consider health and safety issues in worship, but they need to. I remember last year during the SARS crisis in Canada, we Catholics had to modify the pax, which had become risky behaviour.

Touching electrical equipment while standing in a conductive fluid is a very bad idea. The immersion baptisms that baptist churches do should involve no microphones whatsoever. As a musician, I can't tell you how many times I have been shocked while touching my guitar strings and the microphone ball at the same time... and that was while totally dry!

CNN.com - Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism - Oct 31, 2005