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Affiliating in the Age of Unaffiliation: How Digital Social Networking is Changing How We Gather

Affiliating in the Age of Unaffiliation: How Digital Social Networking is Changing How We Gather

by Kay Ahmed | Apr 17, 2015 | 21stCenturySpirituality

“I haven’t really given it much thought, but I’m really not looking for community when I go to church,” a colleague said when we talked at a consultation earlier this year sponsored by the New Media Project. We’d been thinking about the ways in which new digital media...
Women Clergy Seeking the Digitally-Integrated Real

Women Clergy Seeking the Digitally-Integrated Real

by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 10, 2015 | Bearings Review 2015, DigitalMinistry

It was a snow day in 2004 when I started a blog. I wrote about my dog, but it didn’t take much shoveling to see that I was really writing about my loneliness as a small church pastor juggling her vocation and motherhood. After I pressed “publish,” I spent the rest of...
Self-Giving God, Self-Giving Church: Letting Go of the Church into the Love of God

Self-Giving God, Self-Giving Church: Letting Go of the Church into the Love of God

by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 3, 2015 | Bearings Review 2015, ChurchChange

Each year as Holy Week comes upon us again, we have another opportunity to be formed by the stories and practices of death and resurrection. Our formation this year depends on what’s happening right now in our minds and hearts, church and world. Several current...

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