by social@thebtscenter.org | Aug 21, 2017 | AboutBearings
We’ve had a couple of difficult weeks here in the United States. Two weekends ago, white supremacy and domestic terrorism publicly reared their sinful heads in Virginia. (Too bad it took the specter of Tiki torch-bearing men shouting racist slogans and the murder of...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 30, 2017 | 21stCenturyMission, 21stCenturySpirituality
Sumer is icumen in. Lhude sing cuckoo! Summer has come in—or so the “Cuckoo Song,” also known as the “Summer Canon,” tells me. The piece, which dates to the 13th century, is the oldest known musical composition to feature six-part polyphony. In other words, it was...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 11, 2016 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, Bearings Review 2017
EDITORS’ NOTE: Adam Copeland was our scheduled contributor for this week, but as we moved late into the night of the presidential election, it was clear that the outcome many of us had hoped for, and perhaps even expected, was not to happen. We began to wonder whether...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 9, 2016 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturySpirituality, AboutBearings
As we ease into our third year of publication of The BTS Center’s award-winning blog, Bearings, co-editors Elizabeth Drescher and Alyssa Lodewick have been mulling the role of outlets like ours in shaping what the Church is becoming in a dynamic religious landscape....
by social@thebtscenter.org | Aug 23, 2016 | AboutBearings
Perhaps because I have spent so many years of my life in school and church settings, I relish these last few weeks of August. Sure, classes may be starting in educational institutions across the nation, but in my mind, “academic summer”—with its more luxurious,...
