by social@thebtscenter.org | May 28, 2015 | 21stCenturyMinistry
Is it the pastor’s place to console, or is it the pastor’s place to challenge? Should ministers emphasize comforting the afflicted, or afflicting the comfortable? In the piece that he wrote for Bearings last week, Adam J. Copeland pondered these questions when he...
by social@thebtscenter.org | May 20, 2015 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Bearings Review 2015
“One of the reasons that people need pastors is precisely because God is always present but usually not apparent.” – M. Craig Barnes In my Presbyterian faith tradition most pastors wear black preaching robes. I promise we don’t do it for comfort. Or looks (obviously)....
by Kay Ahmed | May 14, 2015 | ChurchChange
For the last year or so I’ve been saying an unpopular thing to people in Mainline churches, but it’s a thing I think we need to hear: There is no Next Great Awakening. The promised Emergence has retired to a cottage in the Ozarks. And, perhaps most discomfiting of...
by social@thebtscenter.org | May 7, 2015 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Bearings Review 2015
Can you hear it? It’s the sound of Mainline ministry leaders around the country breathing deep sighs of relief, patting themselves on the back, and smiling in self-congratulation in response to the recent news that what Millennials—that generation woefully absent from...
by Kay Ahmed | May 1, 2015 | 21stCenturyMinistry
Editor’s Note: An edited version of this story previously appeared in The Narthex. We are thankful for that publication’s permission to share the piece here. The Rev. Thomas Broad and wardens of Grace Episcopal Church in the rural hamlet of Randolph, New York...
