The Rev. Karen Rohrer is a theologian and Director of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary’s Church Planting Initiative where she teaches and mentors fortunate cohorts on how to be wise, thoughtful, and relevant leaders.

In part one, the strange freedom realized when someone puts ashes on your forehead and reminds you of your own mortality. What does it mean to be mortal? What does it mean to give ourselves permission to not be everything society has told us we should be?