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The Fred McFeely Rogers Awardee for Creative Ministry (2025)

Posted on June 16, 2025June 17, 2025 by ptsblog

At Pittsburgh Theological Seminary’s 2025 Alumnae/i Days gathering, five alums were recognized for the ways in which they each apply their unique gifts to serve God and neighbor.  The purpose of the Fred McFeely Rogers Award for Creative Ministry is “to recognize someone who is newer in the field of ministry. This person will put…

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Looking for Mister Rogers

Posted on January 15, 2020January 22, 2021 by ptsblog

When I moved to Pittsburgh in the summer of 2017 for a new job, I made a list of places to explore to get to know my new city. Near the top of the list was a visit to the statue of Fred Rogers in a park near the confluence of the city’s three rivers….

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Mister Rogers: A Neighbor before Neighboring Was Cool

Posted on March 23, 2018January 28, 2021 by ptsblog

“Won’t you be my neighbor?” For multiple generations of Americans these words instantly call to mind a familiar melody and images of a warm smile, cardigans, blue shoes, and trolleys. I’m no different, by the time I went to kindergarten in the fall of 1989 I’m sure I had heard Mister Rogers’ (at 1962 alumnus…

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