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 | Nov 7, 2019 | Creative Insights
My friend Gary’s father often re-told an old joke: in the morning he would read the obits; if his name didn’t appear, he would go into work. I’m at an age now where I, too, read obituaries. Oh, I’m fine health-wise, despite the rebuilt knees....
by Kay Ahmed | Oct 3, 2019 | 21stCenturyMission, Creative Insights
Median household income in San Jose, California, the so-called Capital of Silicon Valley, is $96,662 a year, with the “middle class income” range cresting at $193,324, according to the finance website, GoBankingRates. For more than 6,000 people in the...
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 | Jun 7, 2019 | Creative Insights
As a pastor/professor I have always wondered about Matthew 2:14: “Out of Egypt I have called my son!” What does this mean for me, for Africans, for African Americans? Does this help us re-member or reclaim the African roots to our faith as Christians? To...
by Kay Ahmed | Apr 4, 2019 | Creative Insights
I am a scholar of art and religion. I also am an artist who dabbles in everything from painting to photography to mixed media. The daughter of a professor father and an artist mother, I split my time growing up between Claremont, California and summers on the...
