by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 3, 2026 | Blog, From The BTS Center's Executive Director, Immigration, Small Church Vitality
Recently, The BTS Center hosted our third annual Green Teams Gathering, which drew together almost 100 people representing congregational Green Teams, Climate Action Teams, Social Justice Teams, and ecologically grounded communities of faith. Our keynote...
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by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 1, 2026 | Blog
And on a Monday*, there came to be wildflowers, because of course they are a Monday people: prodigious, pearlificent, angiosperm (which is to mean they contain within them multitudes – anther and stigma). Eighty, ninety percent of what is green and growing, so much of...
by social@thebtscenter.org | May 1, 2026 | Blog
Myrtle Beach, SC, was a segregated town in the early 1900s. In town was Charlie’s Place: a Black-owned club for Black people in a town where African Americans were not allowed in the ocean for fear of tainting it for the Whites. In a podcast by the same...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 9, 2026 | Blog
This article was first printed in the Greenfield Recorder. Around the corner from where we live, an enterprising soul has set up a quixotic scene. Using an old trailer once adapted to host performances, two life-size figures of snowmen...
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by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 3, 2026 | Blog
Quiet, please, for the sexton beetles, who lower into the earth, slowly, the remains of the little ones: field mice, shrews, sparrows. An embalming of sorts takes place: an antibacterial cocktail of enzymes preserving the flesh, protecting the next generation of...
