Above: V prays with a finger labyrinth in a “Praying with Your Senses” group. 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,…
Category: Ministry
Heroines of History—Frances Willard and Florence Spearing Randolph
Above: The Rev. Dr. Donna Giver-Johnston, director of the Doctor of Ministry program, leads worship. When I was a young girl, my favorite superhero—besides my mother, of course—was Wonder Woman. I remember being captivated by her power to repel bullets with her cuffs and capture evil ones with her lasso of truth, all in service…
Signatures on City Streets—Maria W. Stewart, Contextual Art, and “What If I Am a Woman?”
Tensions were high and hope was scarce during the summer of 2020. Protests were ongoing nationally, triggered by the senseless killing of unarmed African Americans—George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky. However, on June 5, 2020, I was awakened by special news coverage of a mural commissioned by Mayor Muriel Bowser…