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…
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The Moravian Church
One of the most commonly asked questions on the campus of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary is What denomination are you? Though the most common response is Presbyterian, it is equally as common to receive answers such as Baptist, Episcopal, Catholic, Methodist or any of the other one on the spectrum that make up the student…
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (and other things they do not teach you in Seminary)
There are all kinds of things that happen in church that seminary does not prepare you for. There was a Sunday where I got a bloody nose about 2/3 of the way through the sermon. I called it Bloody Sunday. This was never a scenario covered in preaching class. I just finished quickly with…