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 “Mister” Fred Rogers ’62, who sang, “I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,” I am writing…
Category: Protestant Spirituality
Jesus, Patches, and Timely Choices
“No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. Similarly, no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the…
Ascension Day
Last Thursday marked Ascension Day in the liturgical calendar, an ecumenical observance falling on either the 40th day after Easter or the following Sunday (depending on tradition and ecclesial province). Though acknowledged by many traditions—as a Principal Feast in the Anglican Communion and as a Solemnity in the Roman Catholic Church, for example—the commemoration of…