by social@thebtscenter.org | May 31, 2018 | 21stCenturyBible, 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Coping
As ordained clergy, I’ve officiated a lot of funerals. For fourteen years, I shaped burnt ash across congregant’s foreheads on Ash Wednesday and reminded them that we all come from dust. To dust we shall return. Yet these words and rituals rang hollow when my brother...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Sep 28, 2017 | 21stCenturyBible, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality
“Resilient” is what they call those of us who have overcome tremendous obstacles in order to thrive. Psychologists study the conditions of highly adaptive people who seem to defy the odds against them and conclude that those who are resilient have positive community...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 9, 2017 | 21stCenturyBible, 21stCenturyCulture
My daughter is being confirmed this year. Now I understand why parents always say that they don’t know where the time goes. It feels like it was just yesterday that she was baptized. Now she is claiming all those baptismal promises we made on her behalf as her own. At...
by social@thebtscenter.org | May 18, 2017 | 21stCenturyBible, 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry
As a child, I was an avid comic book collector. Every other Saturday, after I completed my chores and received my allowance, my neighborhood friends and I would walk to the nearby comic store, which would have just received its newest shipment of X-Men and Wolverine...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jan 18, 2017 | 21stCenturyBible, 21stCenturySpirituality, Bearings Review 2017, Events
Editor’s Note: Pamela Shellberg, scholar-in-residence at The BTS Center, will be a key speaker at Convocation 2017: “Course Corrections.” The event also will feature poet Scott Cairns and Michelle Walsh, a spiritual director and licensed clinical social worker....
by social@thebtscenter.org | Oct 14, 2016 | 21stCenturyBible, Bearings Review 2017
Where’s the best place to talk about the Bible in our increasingly Bible-illiterate culture? And with whom? Perhaps you’d be surprised if I told you that some of today’s most fascinating Bible-oriented conversations are taking place in non-church settings in America’s...
