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 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 Kay Ahmed | Nov 7, 2019 | From the Editor, Media
I’ve started on the introduction to this issue of Bearings magazine on brave change maybe twenty times in the past couple weeks. Then I’ve stopped. That’s the thing about change—how often halting and unsteady it is, how seldom it is a matter of...
by Kay Ahmed | Oct 3, 2019 | From the Editor
Oh, a storm is threat’ning My very life today If I don’t get some shelter Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away ~Keith Richards The Stones were having a rough time when Keith penned their 1969 anthem, “Gimme Shelter.” Some of that was...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, From the Editor, Immigration
Coming back from what seems to be an increasingly shorter summer hiatus, we often incline to focus Bearings on somewhat more congenial concerns by way of ramping into a publication season that we know will face its share of challenges. But this time around, living in...
by Kay Ahmed | Jun 7, 2019 | From the Editor, News
My friend Keith Anderson—a good friend of Bearings as well—has taken to the open road. He’s on pilgrimage along the famous, well-worn Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Portugal and Spain for eleven days. (You can follow his journey on his pilgrimage blog.) The...
