Grounded in Faith, Formed in Community
The Rev. Dr. Patrice Fowler-Searcy ’13/’24 is the first Black woman to chair Pittsburgh Theological Seminary’s Board of Directors. Prior to assuming this role, Patrice served the Board for 12 years in a number of capacities, including vice chair during Sandy Lamb’s leadership, chair of the governance committee, and member of the Executive and Student…
Above: interior of Second Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Ill.) A few weeks ago, during a children’s message, I asked the kids to look around the room and find the plants. They turned in circles, spying carved motifs and the saturated colors of glass. After a moment, I pointed up. “Look up over my head,” I said,…
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…