by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 5, 2019 | 21stCenturySpirituality, Bearings Review 2015, From Our Archives
This time of year marks the return of the “C&E” crowd to churches—the folks who appear at Christmas and Easter. I imagine that lots of clergy and regular congregants have mixed feelings about these seasonal prodigals. On the one hand, it’s pretty magical to have a...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 23, 2014 | 21stCenturySpirituality, Bearings Review 2015
Editor’s Note: Pam Shellberg first offered a version of this reflection during an Advent service at Redeemer Lutheran Church. We are privileged to share it with you. I have done a fair bit of air travel in the last month or so. A work-related trip, a...
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...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 5, 2014 | 21stCenturyMinistry, From Our Archives
“The poet knows that the human experience of the sacred is awash in the particularity of things, the sensuous surface and ambient array of details that make possible any sense of dwelling in the presence of mystery.” – Belden Lane It’s Christmas morning, 1981, and I’m...
