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Heroines of History—Frances Willard and Florence Spearing Randolph

Posted on March 3, 2025February 28, 2025 by ptsblog

Above: The Rev. Dr. Donna Giver-Johnston, director of the Doctor of Ministry program, leads worship. When I was a young girl, my favorite superhero—besides my mother, of course—was Wonder Woman. I remember being captivated by her power to repel bullets with her cuffs and capture evil ones with her lasso of truth, all in service…

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Audaciously Demanding Compassion – American History and the Syrophoenician Woman

Posted on February 24, 2025 by ptsblog

Above: © Ally Barrett (www.reverendally.org), used by permission. “Crumbs”—A Sermon Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.” 23But he did not answer…

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Who is My Neighbor? – Harold V. Bennett on Neighborhoods and Neighborliness

Posted on February 17, 2025February 13, 2025 by ptsblog

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, “I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you!”, I am writing…

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