by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 5, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, Bearings Review 2016, From Our Archives
In July I was invited to speak about the #BaltimoreUprising at the Duke Summer Institute for Reconciliation. My presentation focused on “Why We Cry, How We Cry and Who Can Cry?” in response to state violence. “Why We Cry” dealt with the systemic and structural...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Nov 18, 2015 | Bearings Photo Essay
Editor’s Introduction: Sometimes, words do not suffice—and yet, during a week marked by horrific bombings in Paris and Beirut and wrenching debates over welcoming refugees from Iraq and Syria to our shores, we have been bombarded by them. Words flowing out of the...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 6, 2015 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturySpirituality
If you somehow managed to Marty McFly yourself back to the High Middle Ages—the epoch of Christendom influence in the pre-Reformation West—you’d likely catch a glimpse of the future of faith even as you regarded the sights, sounds, and (alas) smells of its glorious...