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What Is the Church’s Future? Finding Hope Together, Rebuilding After Storms

Posted on January 21, 2025January 17, 2025 by ptsblog
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Storms have ravaged us these last number of years. A pandemic, extreme weather, and political and denominational turmoil only begin to name the trials we have faced. In the midst of it all, most of us were confronted with our own personal storms, although they are less often named. The classic United Methodist hymn puts…

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Who Is My Neighbor? Rev. Jerry McKinney on Life Transformation Through Community Engagement

Posted on January 14, 2025January 8, 2025 by ptsblog
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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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4 Ways to Lead Children Into Thankfulness

Posted on November 26, 2024November 20, 2024 by ptsblog
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Lynne Napoleon Bassett is the director of the Faith Forming Families Network at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. This week, she reflects on how caregivers can lead children into the habits of gratitude we know to be essential in faith formation. Forming Gratitude in Children’s Spirituality As the Thanksgiving season of gratitude is upon us, we should…

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