by social@thebtscenter.org | Jul 27, 2026 | Art and Creativity, Blog, Books, Creative Insights, Events, From the Editor, Programs, Sacred Space
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...
by Kay Ahmed | Jul 13, 2017 | Books
Summer is, tradition has it, a time for lazy lingering over little more than the lilt of the breeze on the water on a long, languid, sunny day. Sure, we might bring a book or two along to the beach or a mountain hideaway, but even literary fare is lighter through days...
by Kay Ahmed | Jul 15, 2016 | Books
This isn’t, as summers go, an easy one. With ongoing waves of gun violence roiling the nation and two presidential nominating conventions more likely—to mix metaphors—to turn up the heat than to calm the waters, an escapist junket into banal beach reading might seem a...
by Kay Ahmed | Jul 23, 2015 | Books
What we’re reading at any given time in our lives says a lot about what’s going on in our lives, who we are, and maybe a bit about who we’re becoming. After all, the stories we absorb from the pages of books, the ideas we imbibe, and the images that float into our...