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 | 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,...
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...
