by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 17, 2015 | From Our Archives
For the past few weeks, I have been going through the motions. I wrestle with Advent texts, write “to do” lists, and mail packages to faraway beloveds. This marks the first Christmas that two of our three “olders” are so far away from home that they won’t be with us,...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 11, 2015 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry
It’s December, and we have entered the season of narrative. Around the globe, adorable children in Sunday School classrooms are presenting nativity pageants in hundreds of different languages. They don headgear cut from bedsheets and cardboard-and-aluminum angels’...
by Kay Ahmed | Dec 4, 2015 | 21stCenturyMission, 21stCenturySpirituality
In a week . . . no, a month . . . no, a year . . . no, a decade . . . saturated with terror that has been tinged, if not triggered, by religion, it hardly seems possible that the most disturbing bits of “content” stirring in my mind would be a comment made by one of...