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“Who Is My Neighbor?” Andy Bossardet on Incarceration, Survival, and Abundant Life

Posted on September 3, 2024December 13, 2024 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 “Mister” Fred Rogers ’62, who sang, “I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,” I am writing…

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Don’t Be a Hero! And Other Guidelines for Choosing a Lenten Discipline

Posted on February 8, 2018January 28, 2021 by ptsblog

How should you decide what you are going to give up—or take up—for Lent this year? Here’s my plan: I’m going to wake up an hour earlier than usual, depriving myself of sleep and devoting that hour to prayer; read meditatively through the whole New Testament, paying particular attention to living the Sermon on the…

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Will you grow spiritually this year?

Posted on January 23, 2017January 29, 2021 by ptsblog

My kids were each wearing blue the other morning—Duke blue—when my seven-year-old daughter slipped into my bedroom as I was getting ready for work and saw the narrow blue stripes on my dress shirt. “Oh, good!” she declared. “You’re wearing blue too!” “Yes,” I said, “but I’m about to put on a green sweater.” She…

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