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With All Your Heart, Soul, and Strength—Jo Ann Griffith’s Legacy

Posted on March 17, 2026March 17, 2026 by ptsblog
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Above: Bethel Evangelical Secondary School, a school in Dembidolo, Ethiopia operated by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus and supported in part by the PC(USA). “Then children were being brought to [Jesus] in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them, but Jesus…

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Telling Stories to Reach a Post-Christian Society

Posted on February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 by ptsblog
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Above: The Rev. Ralph Lowe ’21, associate minister for congregational support and justice ministries of the Pittsburgh Presbytery, preaches during a chapel service at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary The Rev. Mark Blank ’17 pastors Second Congregational Church  (Bennington, Vt.)—a rural church in an aging, former mill town, whose congregation he describes as “committed to extravagant welcome.”…

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Presbyterian Partnerships: Learning from Christians in the Czech Republic

Posted on February 11, 2026February 11, 2026 by ptsblog
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Above: participants in the 2023 joint conference of the ECCB and PC(USA) in Prague, Czech Republic If you’ve never been outside the United States, you may think of our way of life as “normal” and available to all people. We, as Christians, are often guilty of this type of thinking. We assume that all people…

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