by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 5, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, Bearings Review 2016, From Our Archives
In July I was invited to speak about the #BaltimoreUprising at the Duke Summer Institute for Reconciliation. My presentation focused on “Why We Cry, How We Cry and Who Can Cry?” in response to state violence. “Why We Cry” dealt with the systemic and structural...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 5, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, From Our Archives
“Jesus Loves Me” was one of the first songs we taught the twins when they started to put sounds together to form some semblance of words: Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong— they are weak, but he is strong. Yes, Jesus...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Nov 1, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Coping, From Our Archives
As someone who has volunteered in hospice for ten years and has written on the spirituality of dying and death, I am often asked about grief and coping with loss. I used to balk and say, “I do dying and death; not grief. I know nothing about coping with loss.” While I...
by Kay Ahmed | Oct 3, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturySpirituality, Featured Article
She said it with a cool indifference, and like she meant it: “If I stayed in Salt Lake City, I would have killed myself.” She said she had options. She had an underwear drawer full of “benzos.” She could cook a lethal overdose of heroin. The drugs weren’t really for...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, From the Editor, Immigration
Coming back from what seems to be an increasingly shorter summer hiatus, we often incline to focus Bearings on somewhat more congenial concerns by way of ramping into a publication season that we know will face its share of challenges. But this time around, living in...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, Featured Article, Immigration
I was raised in Eatonville, Florida—the oldest all-black, incorporated town in the country. Eatonville sits between Daytona Beach and Orlando. We are smack dab in the middle of central Florida (thus the name of our university, the University of Central Florida)....
