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“We Believe”—The Nicene Creed as a Communal Story

Posted on November 17, 2025November 11, 2025 by ptsblog

Have you ever been to a meeting so important that it will be remembered and celebrated 17 centuries from today? If so, would you even know? As a pastor of local congregations, I often liked church council meetings. When they worked well, council meetings could be an act of worship: gathering in Christian community, remembering…

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A Glossary of Our Church’s Neighbors

Posted on November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 by ptsblog

At Pittsburgh Seminary, we seek to participate in God’s ongoing mission in the world by seeing and getting to know people as our neighbors. Challenged by Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan and inspired by Mr. Fred Rogers ’62, who sang, “I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you!”, I am writing…

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Theological Imagination, a Poet in Exile, and Calvin as Interpreter of the Psalms

Posted on October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 by ptsblog

On Oct. 2, 2025, the Rev. Dr. Kenneth J. Woo was installed into the P. C. Rossin Chair of Church History and Historical Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Below are excerpts of his inaugural lecture, “Theological Imagination, a Poet in Exile, and Calvin as Interpreter of the Psalms.” These lecture points are more fully fleshed…

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