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The Story of a Worthwhile Future: 3 takeaways for storytellers from our eco-writers’ retreat
Scientists pen memoirs. Preachers sing the blues. Historians catalog their prayers, and homileticians dream in sci-fi, and clergy tell new origin stories, and all creation praises: for the Love of it all. A thousand beautiful things happened in the meeting of...
The Story of a Worthwhile Future: 3 takeaways for storytellers from our eco-writers’ retreat
Scientists pen memoirs. Preachers sing the blues. Historians catalog their prayers, and homileticians dream in sci-fi, and clergy tell new origin stories, and all creation praises: for the Love of it all. A thousand beautiful things happened in the meeting of...
Relationality of Earthcare
Welcome to “Relationality of Earthcare”:the third edition of Murmurations. This edition will come to subscribers’ inboxes in four installations. It’s also here online. Through this edition, you’ll hear again and again that none of us can do good earthcare alone. And good earthcare requires good care for one another.
What Is Mature Hope?
Passivity, in other words, can be a failure to love one’s neighbor (and/or the earth, I would add).
Finding the path to environmental justice
Earth Day sermon delivered by Sue Inches to First Parish Yarmouth, April 21, 2024. May we be inspired by those who are leading us towards environmental justice for all.
Answering Your Call to Ministry, Your Way
When we see someone responding to their vocational call, we might assume, “They can do it because they have (insert degree, training, or other unrealistic assumption of perfection).” We often choose to believe “I’m not enough” rather than to forge into the unknown.
Community, imagination and climate change: an interview with board member Rev. Eric Elnes
“The work of The BTS Center is part of a much broader evolution within Christianity. I believe the “butterfly” Christianity is becoming will fully embrace the path of Jesus while letting go of the idea that it is the only valid faith tradition on the planet.”
A Case for the Common Good in a Climate-Changed World
The common good is a posture, a perspective, and a range of practices that occur when we decenter ourselves as individuals in favor of taking our rightful place in the sacred web of life. This web includes you and me.
Murmurations: Issue 1
Most recently, Rev. Lessard has participated in the Climate Conscious Conversation Circles with The BTS Center. Of her experience in the Circles, she says: “I can’t tell you how valuable that was for me because this is such a unique and odd path that I didn’t expect. Being able to sit and work with others involved in similar work, learning about this, and evolving into this new form of chaplaincy was hugely impactful.”
Tending the Wounded Healers
Over the past several years, The BTS Center has been engaged in the work of co-creating programming which offers spiritual care in a variety of ways. From Conversation Circles for chaplains deep in the work of holding space for others, to spiritual accompaniment circles for those seeking contemplative grounding and discernment, to programs for expressing climate grief through ritual, each of our offerings acknowledges the truth that without spaces for spiritual care, spiritual leadership for this climate-changed world is unsustainable.
Climate Voter, Climate Citizen
Every Election Day is an opportunity to pause and to ask fundamental questions about the world we desire for ourselves and for our children. We believe that this election, upcoming in November, has the potential to be an inflection point in the work for a just and livable climate future.
The Best of Bearings
“It’s December, and nobody asked if I was ready,” writes poet Sarah Kay. December arrives every year with a bit of urgency, doesn’t it? The last...
Change, Brave and Otherwise
I've started on the introduction to this issue of Bearings magazine on brave change maybe twenty times in the past couple weeks. Then I've stopped....
Gratitude for Elizabeth Drescher
With this issue of Bearings, Elizabeth Drescher, friend and consulting scholar with The BTS Center from its earliest days, puts down her editor’s...
Give Us Shelter
Oh, a storm is threat'ning My very life today If I don't get some shelter Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away ~Keith Richards The Stones were having a...
Bearing Witness at the Border
Coming back from what seems to be an increasingly shorter summer hiatus, we often incline to focus Bearings on somewhat more congenial concerns by...
The Summer Send-Off Issue
My friend Keith Anderson—a good friend of Bearings as well—has taken to the open road. He's on pilgrimage along the famous, well-worn Camino de...
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