by social@thebtscenter.org | Mar 6, 2026 | Blog, Immigration
Click to read this and be part of the conversation in our Substack readership community. We’ve been saying “a climate-changed world” for a while now, here at The BTS Center. And time and again, when people hear that phrase, something in their heart says,...
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 | 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 | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Featured Article, Immigration
“How did I never learn about this in school?!” Last month, I stood with a group of young people at the site of the largest massacre in modern Central American history, El Mozote, El Salvador. More than 1,000 civilians, mostly women and children, were systematically...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyMission, Commentary, Immigration
The demands on us related to immigration are overwhelming and may seem insurmountable. There seems to be no end to the mass suffering and injustice being inflicted on immigrant families—in particular children and youth—who are simply trying to survive in the midst of...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, Featured Article, Immigration
I was raised in Eatonville, Florida—the oldest all-black, incorporated town in the country. Eatonville sits between Daytona Beach and Orlando. We are smack dab in the middle of central Florida (thus the name of our university, the University of Central Florida)....
