Michelle Snyder ’09 is a church consultant and a national leader in suicide prevention training for faith communities. In this post, she shares about her journey from “ministering” to the point of self-neglect to finding theological grounding and healing that enabled her to serve others with energy, joy, and unimaginable impact in faith communities around…
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Who Is My Neighbor? The Rev. Kathryn Lester-Bacon on Neighbor, Change, and Mutual Responsibility
Above: V prays with a finger labyrinth in a “Praying with Your Senses” group. 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,…
What Is the Church’s Future? Finding Hope Together, Rebuilding After Storms
Storms have ravaged us these last number of years. A pandemic, extreme weather, and political and denominational turmoil only begin to name the trials we have faced. In the midst of it all, most of us were confronted with our own personal storms, although they are less often named. The classic United Methodist hymn puts…