Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Grounded in Faith, Formed in Community
In class one of my professors, Dr. Tuell, shared with us a few of his favorite Martin Luther King Jr. quotes, and it got me thinking which one would I consider my favorite. Though admittedly the reservoir of King’s speeches in my brain is fairly limited, the portion I am going to share is…
Growing up as a child in a Christian home, I was always told that the Scriptures were sacred. They were God-breathed. Divine. Different from other sorts of stories and books, they were set apart. We were not to laugh when we read the Bible. Reading the Bible was an ongoing act of discipline. It was…
I handed in my church history test, convinced I had failed. Not in the overly dramatic sense of not getting a perfect but a serious acknowledgement at my impending very, very bad grade. I was angry at myself, for all the time I had invested studying with the output being sub par, worried that my grade…