by social@thebtscenter.org | Jul 15, 2026 | Blog, From The BTS Center's Executive Director, From the Editor, Immigration, News
Beloved: All creation groans for another – a better – way. A reality other than one in which our neighbors can be murdered by federal agents. By now, you’ve likely heard of the cruel and public assassination of 25 year-old Johan Sebastián Guerrero by ICE agents, who...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 3, 2026 | Blog, From The BTS Center's Executive Director, Immigration, Small Church Vitality
Recently, The BTS Center hosted our third annual Green Teams Gathering, which drew together almost 100 people representing congregational Green Teams, Climate Action Teams, Social Justice Teams, and ecologically grounded communities of faith. Our keynote...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 11, 2025 | Blog, Commentary, From The BTS Center's Executive Director, Immigration
It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and I’m just outside the Cumberland County Jail, standing shoulder to shoulder with colleagues and comrades. We’re keeping vigil on a street corner in solidarity with immigrants who are being held in cinderblock cells just beyond our...
by Kay Ahmed | Dec 5, 2019 | AboutBearings, Bearings Review 2019, Featured Article, From The BTS Center's Executive Director, Lessons Learned, Our Team
“It’s December, and nobody asked if I was ready,” writes poet Sarah Kay. December arrives every year with a bit of urgency, doesn’t it? The last remnants of turkey are still in the refrigerator, and all of a sudden, almost without warning, ready or not, we find...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 7, 2019 | From The BTS Center's Executive Director
With this issue of Bearings, Elizabeth Drescher, friend and consulting scholar with The BTS Center from its earliest days, puts down her editor’s pen, wrapping up this project which has been her labor of love for the past five-plus years. We can’t let this moment pass...
