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...
by Kay Ahmed | May 2, 2019 | From the Editor
Some years ago I gave a talk at a now-defunct seminary in which I argued, surely less eloquently than I might have liked, that a critical postmodern challenge for people in ministry was developing scientific literacy and fluency. I took as my starting point Albert...
by Kay Ahmed | Apr 4, 2019 | From the Editor
In our five years of publications, Bearings Magazine has grown considerably. Beginning as a humble, weekly blog, we have developed into a full-fledged online, monthly magazine with thematic features engaging key issues in 21st-century ministry, creative insights from...
