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What Is the Church’s Future? Finding Hope Together, Rebuilding After Storms

Posted on January 21, 2025January 17, 2025 by ptsblog
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Storms have ravaged us these last number of years. A pandemic, extreme weather, and political and denominational turmoil only begin to name the trials we have faced. In the midst of it all, most of us were confronted with our own personal storms, although they are less often named. The classic United Methodist hymn puts…

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Who Is My Neighbor? The Rev. Gad Mpoyo on Neighbor, “Other,” and Interconnectedness

Posted on March 19, 2024December 13, 2024 by ptsblog
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Here 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 Fred Rogers, who sang, “I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,” I am writing to…

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Innovators Reflect on Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley

Posted on June 8, 2021April 23, 2021 by ptsblog
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In the Seminary’s Center for Adaptive and Innovative Ministry, we believe being together and sharing the stuff of life forms community. This belief raises important questions in the age of pandemic: • What does it mean that we haven’t been able to gather regularly for a year or more? • How do we rebuild trust…

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