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Blood on My Hands

Posted on January 27, 2016January 29, 2021 by ptsblog

The other day, quite unintentionally actually, I found myself in Chapel at my school, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. I am a marvelously busy guy these days, and Chapel is one thing that just seems to fall off my radar screen each week. But I was having lunch with someone who wanted to swing by Chapel first,…

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The Flint Water Crisis: A Fight for Living Water

Posted on January 26, 2016January 29, 2021 by ptsblog

What is a person to do when their very source of existence is contaminated? Where do you go when the persons responsible for your well-being reduce your present and future health considerations to cold-eyed economic calculations? To whom do you turn when the boundless future imagined for one’s children are constrained by the reality that…

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Richard Allen and the #CharlestonSyllabus

Posted on January 25, 2016January 29, 2021 by ptsblog

Earlier this academic year, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary’s American Religious Biography class studied biographical accounts of seven women and men whose lives spanned the centuries from the colonial era through the 20th century. After digging deeply into the historical accounts of those Christian figures, students reflected on what insight each narrative might have for modern Christians,…

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