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Engaging Place and Story

Posted on June 15, 2022June 8, 2022 by ptsblog

Proverbs from PTS Field Education (Part 2 of a 2 part series) by Barbara J. Blodgett, Director of Field Education at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Part of being a supervisor in the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Field Education program is meeting and learning with fellow supervisors. Each supervisor attends two sessions per year. This year, we took…

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Rachel Held Evans

Rachel Held Evans and Grace

Posted on May 4, 2019August 2, 2021 by ptsblog

My wife, Erin, and I first became aware of Rachel Held Evans when we were serving in Florida. As we were working with youth from a number of churches, one of the teenagers asked us to read something called A Year of Biblical Womanhood. It struck us as an odd request – odd enough that…

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Defending Resolutions

Posted on January 8, 2019August 2, 2021 by ptsblog

Many churches just celebrated Epiphany. In the church calendar, Epiphany fills one official role and one unofficial role. Officially, it’s the time that we celebrate either the arrival of the Magi or the baptism of Christ. Unofficially, it’s the time we begin to joke about broken New Year’s resolutions. Actually, that’s too generous. Many of…

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