College chaplain Maggie Alsup on providing safe spaces for students to explore the language of sexuality.
Jeremy Wilhelmi reflects on encouraging his children to accept all forms of gender and sexuality. Sometimes, this means letting them experience the world without commentary, he writes.
Katherine Piper embraces the purity of curiosity and lack of bias when introducing difficult topics to young learners.
Erin Angeli reflects on the workshop she led with LGBTQIA+ teens about some queer saints of the church.
Elana Keppel Levy ponders intimacy and the vulnerability that comes with it.
A poem by Scott Barton responding to Lamentations 1:1–6; 3:19–26 and Luke 17:5–10.
How can U.S. churches think beyond capitalistic motivations when they are so entrenched in society? Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Professor Scott Hagley points to the Eucharist as a starting point for our collective imagination.
As Eliza Jaremko sends her eldest daughter off to kindergarten, she reflects that learning never stops — the church is proof of that.
A poem by Jay Hulme.
College chaplain Maggie Alsup reflects on how her anxiety followed her throughout her education and the kindness of certain teachers that granted her perspective.
Newly-ordained Molly Smerko reflects on the week shortly after her ordination that included presiding at a wedding, the Lord’s Table and a funeral.
"As the articles in this issue reflect, our LGBTQIA+ siblings are not so 'other.' They are our family members, church members, co-workers and friends who are loved by the God who created them."
Union Presbyterian Seminary Doctor of Ministry student David Bonnema explores best practices for planting and funding new worshipping communities.
Karie Charlton shares the short prayer that buoyed her spirits as a music teacher at a Catholic school and continues to shape her today.
Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty makes a Christian argument for climate justice.
The Rev. Shanea Leonard offers some suggestions to make your congregation a welcoming place for people of all genders.
In response to a string of violent attacks in her hometown, Anne Apple questions God and finds comfort – both communal and divine – in a memorial run.
In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling affirming prayer in public schools, Andrew Taylor Troutman reflects on his high school baseball team’s pregame ritual of saying the Lord’s Prayer.
Pastor and writer Kathleen Long Bostrom reflects on the lessons Bridge to Terabithia contains for her life and the recent call to ban it. Can we build a bridge to understanding, she wonders?
Jay Blossom appreciates theologians like William Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas who argue against state religion and Christian nationalism. And yet, something deeply moved him about Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday.
In honor of Banned Books Week, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary alum Luke Hillier reflects on Toni Morrison’s Sula, sharing the lessons the book taught him as a 17-year-old and teaches him today.
Amy Butler details the formation of Invested Faith, a donor-advised fund (DAF) that directs proceeds from closing church and faith institutions to enterprises started by faith-rooted social entrepreneurs.
While wrestling with depression and a lack of clarity in her faith, Rev. Molly Smerko asks a friend, “How did you get unstuck?”. The resulting year of exploring spiritual practices has grounded her in a new way.
"What is the future of our congregation? Where is the Holy Spirit leading us?"
"Faces change but exploitative systems remain the same."
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