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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

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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Why We’re Not Interested in Your Sunday School

Posted on May 30, 2014March 18, 2021 by ptsblog

Young adults seek new forms of Christian education. This article was originally published in the May 2014 special edition “Guide to Young Adult Ministry” of Presbyterians Today magazine. To subscribe or read more articles from this issue, go to www.pcusa.org/today. Battered by a constant torrent of news stories, online media, and social networking feeds, millennials have grown…

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Flickers of Hope

Posted on May 8, 2014March 18, 2021 by ptsblog

Hope is a peculiar thing. The Christian life, I’m told, ought to be characterized and defined by hope. In many biblical passages, hope is given an exemplary status, described as something we retain. Christ’s work on the cross and the resurrection we are now celebrating means that we have hope in the authentic reality that…

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