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...
by Kay Ahmed | Mar 7, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, From the Editor
As we begin the Lenten season in our various ways across the church, Bearings contributors have been mulling what the traditions of the seasons mean in these times—especially the practice of giving up something of significance to experience a wee bit, or at least...
by Kay Ahmed | Jan 31, 2019 | From the Editor, News
It’s easy to make February about a certain kind of love—the sweet, sentimental, Valentines’ Day kind, all wrapped in pretty paper and offered up with chocolates and and a saccharine greeting cards with lacy hearts and ribbons. Maybe there’s a place...
by Kay Ahmed | Jan 4, 2019 | From the Editor, Ritual Reboot
Rituals are central structures for common worship, and they’ve certainly been subject to scrutiny, critique—even conflict—and change over the centuries of the church. In this issue of Bearings, our featured contributors, Claire Dixon, a 21-year-old Catholic college...
by Kay Ahmed | Dec 6, 2018 | From the Editor
In a season of giving, what does it mean to share our spiritual abundance? How does that spiritual giving inform our engagement with the concrete realities of those in need? These are the questions we set out to explore in the December issue of Bearings with Feature...
