by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 23, 2017 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Bearings Review 2017, ChurchChange, Incubator
One year ago, I began studying a rare but important species that many church officials wrongly believe doesn’t exist: the mainline Protestant congregation that finds vitality after doing away with the full-time pastorate. To be sure, it wasn’t always the easiest...
by social@thebtscenter.org | May 12, 2017 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Bearings Review 2017, ChurchChange
I’ve driven by that church—you know, the one with the giant banner that says, “All Are Welcome.” I often ask myself, “If I walked through the doors, would I be embraced?” I’m an educated, queer, Black, Progressive, Transgender Christian. Would I, with all that I...
by Kay Ahmed | Mar 31, 2017 | 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Bearings Review 2017
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at a local chapter of Sunday Assembly, a gathering started by British comedians Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones that was briefly known as “the atheist church” and that, ironically, draws on the “seeker sensitive” church planting methods...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Mar 2, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, Bearings Review 2017, ChurchChange
Three weeks ago, Senate Republicans silenced Senator Elizabeth Warren for criticizing attorney general nominee Senator Jeff Sessions. Warren had attempted to read civil rights activist Coretta Scott King’s 1986 letter against Sessions’ nomination for a federal...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Feb 16, 2017 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, Bearings Review 2017
In a season where the leadership of the United States claims to be constructing “An Entirely New Political Movement,” many have echoed what activist and filmmaker Michael Moore said after November’s election: “We are going to resist … This is going to be a massive...
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....
