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Planting a Church is Whole Body Work

Posted on November 30, 2018January 25, 2021 by ptsblog
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The world seems to be increasingly comfortable with most of our embodied lives being reduced to the digital, and for some things that is perhaps neutral—but life together is something that is hard to do outside one’s body. When I lived in Philadelphia, there was a neighborhood bar where I would somewhat regularly get dinner,…

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Praying with People Grieving Loss from Suicide

Posted on August 30, 2018January 22, 2021 by ptsblog
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4I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help, 5like those forsaken among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand (Ps 88:4-5). These poignant verses express some of…

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Easter Dawns in Pittsburgh’s Riverview Park

Posted on March 29, 2018January 28, 2021 by ptsblog
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“Easter Sunrise Service in the park. It sounded good to our family. But the only one we knew about in Pittsburgh was held in Schenley Park, way on the other side of the city. It would mean at least an hour’s street car ride to get there, so, of course, we didn’t go. That was…

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