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A Senior Reflection: Paul Spangler

Posted on May 9, 2013April 2, 2021 by ptsblog

I’m thankful for this opportunity to write what I’m thinking because people are asking or assuming what I am thinking anyway. Yes, I am graduating and no, I do not know what I am doing after May 31. I plan on staying in my apartment until June 3 at noon, which is when I have…

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A Senior Reflection: Minh Towner

Posted on May 2, 2013April 2, 2021 by ptsblog

  My life has been a struggle, trying to survive in a foreign land far away from those I knew as a child and adult. This struggle took a different turn, had a different meaning after I accepted my call to attend PTS. Initially I felt like I was lost in the wilderness, a sojourner in…

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What Color Is Lent?

Posted on February 21, 2013April 2, 2021 by ptsblog

This has, thankfully, been a mild winter in Pittsburgh (the picture above comes from 2010).  Still, this year as every year, Lent began while winter still held sway.  Indeed, even now, with February at long last over and done (how strange that, according to the calendar, February is the shortest month of the year!), the…

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