Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Grounded in Faith, Formed in Community
At Pittsburgh Theological Seminary’s 2024 Alumnae/i Days gathering, four alums were honored for their work and recognized as this year’s distinguished alumnae/i or received The Fred Rogers Award for Creative Ministry. In this blog series, meet these alums and discover the ways in which they serve God and neighbor in their communities and across the…
On the PTS Blog, we invite alumnae/i to share reflections, stories, and practical tips from their ministry experience. This week, the Rev. B.T. Gilligan ’11 offers advice on cultivating a congregation’s healthy relationship with the practice of financial stewardship from his pastoral experience at Nixon UMC. Beyond the Dreaded “Fall Pledge Drive” As a 2011…
“No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. Similarly, no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the…