Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Grounded in Faith, Formed in Community
Last Thursday marked Ascension Day in the liturgical calendar, an ecumenical observance falling on either the 40th day after Easter or the following Sunday (depending on tradition and ecclesial province). Though acknowledged by many traditions—as a Principal Feast in the Anglican Communion and as a Solemnity in the Roman Catholic Church, for example—the commemoration of…
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 (Mister) Fred Rogers ’62, who sang, “I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,” I am writing…
On Aug. 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was found dead in Money, Miss. He had been brutally beaten and lynched after accusations he had whistled at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family’s grocery store. Years later, Bryant admitted to fabricating the accusation entirely. The men who murdered Till were found not guilty, but…