Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
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On Aug. 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was found dead in Money, Miss. He had been brutally beaten and lynched after accusations he had whistled at a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family’s grocery store. Years later, Bryant admitted to fabricating the accusation entirely. The men who murdered Till were found not guilty, but…
“What are some books that every pastor should read?” PTS faculty were asked this question in spring 2023. Consider these 15 recommendations for studying the intersection of church and race: James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited Martin Luther King , Strength to Love Willie James Jennings, The…
I heard a knock at the front door of our house we had just moved into in Sewickley, Pa. We had moved from Franklin, Tenn., and were grieving the familiar of what we had left and were apprehensive about what we might find in this new place. I opened the door to see a woman…