by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 16, 2016 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturySpirituality, Bearings Review 2017
Everyone seems to want to beat up on 2016. On social media, it’s been referred to as a dumpster fire as well as a sentient creature that will rain down more of its wrath if it hears you maligning it. There are ample reasons why people—in my bubble, at least—want to...
by Kay Ahmed | Dec 9, 2016 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMission, 21stCenturySpirituality
Last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” included a sketch in which Emma Stone played an exhausted, postpartum Virgin Mary who’s annoyed with Joseph for inviting visitor after visitor—shepherds, magi, a llama (not of the Dalai sort … )—into the stable where she’s...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 2, 2016 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry
As I finish Thanksgiving and head full bore into the Christmas season, John Wesley’s three rules—“Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.”—keep running through my mind. Perhaps this is because we have just come through a contentious election season that has left...
