Westminster Seminars

Event details

  • Sunday | March 24, 2024
  • 09:45 AM -
  • Galbreath Chapel and via Zoom
  • 412-835-6630

The Westminster Seminars offer a dynamic schedule of topics to help us live more fully as thoughtful Christians in today’s world. Everyone is always welcome. Come when you can – no preparation or homework. The Zoom option makes it easy to catch a seminar if you aren’t at church. Find the link on the church website under Featured Events or in the Friday church email.

For most seminars, you can watch or listen later on the Westminster website under News & Media: https://www.westminster-church.org/news-&-media/westminster-seminars.

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Entry into Jerusalem

Sunday, March 24
Sandy Conley

Over the ages, the story of Jesus's entry into Jerusalem has inspired countless artists to illustrate the sacred event. On Palm Sunday, Westminster member and visual artist Sandy Conley will lead a discussion about six artists' interpretations of Palm Sunday. Beginning with Giotto's magnificent fresco Entry into Jerusalem from 1305 and concluding with contemporary printmaker Kreg Yingst's Sacred Art Pilgrim, each artist’s moving renderings will help us to usher in Holy Week.

Sandy Conley is a visual artist working in various media such as oils, pastels, mixed media, watercolor, and digital art. She seeks to listen for and then heed the quiet leading of the Spirit when creating works of art. She is often startled and delighted by each artistic journey.

The seminars will not meet on Easter Sunday, March 31.


Author of Life: The Resurrection of the Dead and the Origins of Christianity

Sundays, April 7, 14, 21
Tucker Ferda, Associate Professor of New Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

In modern American Christianity, “resurrection” language risks becoming christianese: an abstract way of speaking that does not carry much theological content. In this three-part series, we explore what “resurrection” actually meant to the original Jesus movement, and how fundamental it was to their theological convictions. We will investigate how early Christian resurrection belief emerged from Second Temple Judaism, and how the canonical Gospels differ from other later Gospels in the ways they described and prioritized Jesus’ return to life after death. In the end, we will better understand how Paul could write to Corinth: “If Christ has not been raised, then your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.”


The Puritan Vision for New England

Sunday, April 28
John E. Wilson, Professor Emeritus of Church History, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

John Winthrop's famous sermon of 1630 aboard the "Arabella" expresses not only Puritan hopes and expectations for New England but also ideals that were to become characteristic of American Christianity.