by social@thebtscenter.org | Mar 27, 2015 | 21stCenturySpirituality
It was the bright yellow color of the lobster traps that caught my eye at first, but it was the symmetry of the stack that held my gaze—small yellow squares forming bigger blocks, bigger blocks creating a large cube, the repeating patterns of the wires, of the green...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Mar 19, 2015 | 21stCenturyMinistry
Considering the amount of online commentary available concerning the millennial generation and the future of the church, the relative dearth of attention paid to young adults’ experience of faith and college is surprising. After all, college changes people. The...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Mar 13, 2015 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Bearings Review 2015
In less than two weeks, on Sunday, March 22nd—or April 12th if we need a snow date (please, God, in your warm-hearted mercy don’t force us to use the snow date!)—the United Church of Christ will ordain and authorize me for Christian ministry on its behalf. I am...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Mar 6, 2015 | Leadership
Editor’s note: Part of this blog post is a further development of material in The Soul of a Leader by Margaret Benefiel (Crossroad, 2008). Used with permission of the publisher. The Western church rewards twenty-first-century ministry leaders, lay and ordained...
