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Learning at the US/Mexico Border

Posted on February 24, 2022 by ptsblog

In Spring 2022, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary students traveled to the Arizona/Sonora, Mexico, border as part of the Seminary’s master of divinity degree required intercultural learning experience. They listened to churches, migrants, a Border Patrol agent, and Mexican and U.S. pastors, who shared what it meant to their community to care for the widows, orphans, and…

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The Power of Prayer

Posted on April 17, 2015March 9, 2021 by ptsblog

“Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.”  John 14:13-14 The last day we were in the village of Bhirkot, we walked to the home of one of the villagers for a…

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We’re All One Body in Christ

Posted on April 14, 2015March 9, 2021 by ptsblog

“For just as the body is one and has many members and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we are all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free- and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.” 1…

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