by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 6, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, From Our Archives
From 1988 to 2012, I served as the pastor of a United Church of Christ congregation in the small city of Presque Isle, which is located in Aroostook County in northern Maine—just a few miles from the Canadian border. In the spring of 2001, I had been a member of the...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Feb 27, 2015 | ChurchChange
It’s a difficult thing to bear the burden of a legacy. Even more so when it comes to traditions of faith. “What would our Patron Theological Figure do?” we may ask. Or perhaps we mentally transport ourselves back to some imagined Golden Era when our tradition seemed...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Feb 19, 2015 | 21stCenturyMinistry
In the beginning, there wasn’t even coffee . . . So began life with my first congregation—a part-time call to a congregation rattling around an enormous building with wrinkled carpet in the sanctuary and cracked linoleum pretty much everywhere else. They were running...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Feb 12, 2015 | 21stCenturySpirituality
I decided to return to my old church for a visit. Readers of BEARINGS will recall that it’s been a while since I’ve crossed the threshold of the church that nurtured me through graduate school and the various ups and downs of life at that time. I’d been mulling a...
