by Kay Ahmed | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured Article, Ministry on the Edge
Standing in front of giant doors of a 150 year old Lutheran Church, she waits for the Spirit to move. DeAnne Lilly Parks, a painter and sculptor, spent most of the summer painting a mural on the outside doors of the church. Paint and brushes and willing heart at the...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured Article, Ministry on the Edge
On September 28, 2018 at 12:30 in the afternoon, Mike McHargue, a.k.a. “Science Mike,” an evangelical author, podcaster, and member of The Liturgists, tweeted the following: I want you to know that I am a survivor of sexual assault. Not because I need sympathy or...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 8, 2018 | Commentary, Ministry on the Edge
There has always been a crisis. There will always be a crisis until God reconciles the world to God’s self. Until that time comes, there will be crisis after crisis. In these days, it’s absurd to simply say that there is a crisis. There seems to be a crisis every 24...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 8, 2018 | Creative Insights, Ministry on the Edge
My friend Christina started talking to me about Creative Arts Camp during Holy Week last year, when my focus was obviously elsewhere. She told me how amazing it had been the first time the previous summer—how they taught dance, writing, visual arts, culinary arts, and...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 8, 2018 | Creative Insights, Ministry on the Edge
We asked regular Bearings contributor Ellen McGrath Smith to gather some poems from Pittsburgh writers for our Tree of Life Special Issue. Alas, an email glitch kept the piece from getting to us before publication of the issue. We share them now as an opportunity for...
