Elizabeth Rose Vates, Member of The McMillan Society of Planned Giving Elizabeth Vates was a dear friend of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Over the years she was an active member of the PTS community, participating in various Seminary activities including our Leading Women Tea events and Miller Summer Youth Institute engagements. Elizabeth was a graduate…
Praying with Someone Experiencing Depression
If your prayer list has more than a few names on it, chances are that you are lifting up someone who suffers from depression. And if you do not know depression first hand, you may wonder how to pray with and for someone who does. It is easy to think, “Well, I will just pray…
Women’s History at PTS: Lee Anna Starr
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Pittsburgh Seminary remembers its first female graduate, Dr. Lee Anna Starr (1853-1937). Dr. Starr graduated in 1893 from the Allegheny Theological School, an antecedent institution of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She was ordained in the Methodist Protestant Church in 1895 and became an accomplished pastor, a leader in the Women’s…