Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Grounded in Faith, Formed in Community
My wife, Erin, and I first became aware of Rachel Held Evans when we were serving in Florida. As we were working with youth from a number of churches, one of the teenagers asked us to read something called A Year of Biblical Womanhood. It struck us as an odd request – odd enough that…
When I was coming through seminary, I heard a few distinct messages loud and clear: “There won’t be a church job for you when you graduate, so don’t expect to find one.” “Don’t worry too much about understanding budgets, your church will have a financial secretary to help you with that.” “Taking on some…
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,…