Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Grounded in Faith, Formed in Community
You know that nativity set that sits in your house? If you’re a little bolder, maybe it sits on your lawn. It’s older than you think. At least, part of it is. Most nativity sets today are really the combination of three streams of art. The center is what used to appear in paintings entitled…
“How can I do mission work faithfully?” A youth pastor asked me this question recently—it had really begun to bother him. So much has been written about the complexity of Christian mission work and the pitfalls with various approaches that he had started to get frustrated. He wanted to obey the Christian command to love…
I never thought I’d be the one in the family begging to turn on the all-Christmas-all-the-time radio station—in our case, Wish 99.7, Pittsburgh’s official Christmas station—especially not the day before Advent. But this year I was the first to tune in. How else to get Adele turned off? The several previous days of Thanksgiving food…