by social@thebtscenter.org | Oct 3, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, From Our Archives
Growing up, I didn’t realize that my proximity to extended family would, 40 years later, turn out to be an anachronism. With my much older sister and three of my father’s six siblings living within a few hundred yards of our family farm, I came and went as I pleased....
by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 29, 2016 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission
After moving to Maine in my mid-twenties, I slowly emerged from a long stretch of having nothing much to do with God or organized religion. During my high school years, I was a devout Evangelical, and the only school I applied to was a Christian liberal arts college....
by social@thebtscenter.org | Oct 30, 2015 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMission, Bearings Review 2016
One weekend this fall my husband and I flew to New Mexico. One of our twin sons is a college junior in Santa Fe, and we find that the 2,500 miles between us pulls at our heartstrings. Parents’ Weekend offered us a legitimate pretense for visiting. This particular son,...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 24, 2015 | From Our Archives
Originally published in Bearings April 2015 | Not long ago, heading home from a distant airport because of a cancelled flight, my husband and I found ourselves in a rest stop at 2:30 in the morning. Just over the Maine border from New Hampshire, we stopped to switch...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 12, 2014 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Bearings Review 2015
In May I began walking a daily four-mile loop around our village, Damariscotta Mills, a lovely spot tucked between a lake and a tidal river on Maine’s midcoast. I hoped, by starting some sort—any sort—of regimen, I might begin to prepare for a long hike my husband and...
