Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Grounded in Faith, Formed in Community
To all our 2013 graduates: These are tough times for people of faith. A recent Gallup poll reveals that 77% of Americans believe “religion is losing its influence on American life”—the highest negative number polled on this question since 1970, when 75% of Americans thought that this was true. The Pew Research Institute has determined…
Sometimes my mom talks with her hands As if what is bundled inside Her feelings, thoughts, emotions, meanings, motives, intentions, passions All that constructs the fluid terrain of intangibles Within this elemental entanglement Were locked and needed escape And could only through painting a narration In the dance of her fingers The slide of…
This has, thankfully, been a mild winter in Pittsburgh (the picture above comes from 2010). Still, this year as every year, Lent began while winter still held sway. Indeed, even now, with February at long last over and done (how strange that, according to the calendar, February is the shortest month of the year!), the…