by social@thebtscenter.org | Nov 27, 2025 | Art and Creativity, Blog, Creative Insights
By Peterson Toscano Producer, Climate Changed podcast When I first heard Pax Ressler’s Woven Again, I didn’t imagine looms or spinning wheels. I heard something more internal, more human—a sense of a frayed connection, of kinship lost with each other and all living...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | Art and Creativity, Creative Insights, Immigration
Peace has been hard to find for families being separated at the border. As people seek a safe and sustainable life here in the United States, they are criminalized for making the attempt to cross the United States border, and Texas poets across the state are calling...
by Kay Ahmed | Mar 6, 2019 | Art and Creativity, Creative Insights
Artist DeAnne Parks brings scripture and spirituality to visual life through vivid images that enliven religious spaces throughout the Upper Midwest. She shared a selection of her works and insight into her creative process with Bearings. ~Ed. When I begin, I have no...
by Kay Ahmed | Jan 30, 2019 | 21stCenturySpirituality, Art and Creativity, Creative Insights
It’s no secret that the bulk of religious iconography from across spiritual traditions highlights the faces of men, oftentimes whitewashed to erase the varied hues of skin that our saints embodied. Overlooked, strategically erased, and missing are the bold faces of...
by Kay Ahmed | Oct 11, 2018 | 21stCenturyMinistry, AboutBearings, Art and Creativity, Commentary, Wilderness
When I started this piece some weeks ago, the world was a different place. I had taken a jauntier tone than feels possible now. After all, here we are announcing not only the fifth year of publishing Bearings—a milestone for any publication, big or small—but also...
by Kay Ahmed | Oct 10, 2018 | 21stCenturyCulture, Art and Creativity, Creative Insights
Mark Collins launches our regular Creative Insights section with a video on his, um, adventures making furniture from repurposed basketball court boards. His “Plato, Basketball, and Your Life Work” explores vision, revision, and purpose as, well, often something of a...
