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Why We’re Not Interested in Your Sunday School

Posted on May 30, 2014March 18, 2021 by ptsblog
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Young adults seek new forms of Christian education. This article was originally published in the May 2014 special edition “Guide to Young Adult Ministry” of Presbyterians Today magazine. To subscribe or read more articles from this issue, go to www.pcusa.org/today. Battered by a constant torrent of news stories, online media, and social networking feeds, millennials have grown…

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Flickers of Hope

Posted on May 8, 2014March 18, 2021 by ptsblog
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Hope is a peculiar thing. The Christian life, I’m told, ought to be characterized and defined by hope. In many biblical passages, hope is given an exemplary status, described as something we retain. Christ’s work on the cross and the resurrection we are now celebrating means that we have hope in the authentic reality that…

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Caring for Conflict

Posted on April 10, 2014March 18, 2021 by ptsblog
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  Conflict. It seems to be everywhere. Plastered across our newspapers and television screens, sending updates on our phones or notifying us on Facebook. And we see it, we talk about it and can be shocked by it. But to some extent we are never fully surprised, as if we have the muck of reality already…

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