by social@thebtscenter.org | Sep 30, 2016 | 21stCenturyMission, 21stCenturySpirituality
I am new to this space. Contrary to the usually polite tradition of such occasions, let me introduce myself with an admission: despite the titles of writer and teacher, my ignorance is both broad and deep. I thought I understood parables and metaphors and language; I...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Sep 23, 2016 | 21stCenturyMinistry
Toward the end of Coffee Hour on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend—a light day, as they go—I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was our usually unflappable church Music Director, looking, well, flapped. “Got a minute?” he said in the “up tone” that in church staff speak...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Sep 16, 2016 | 21stCenturySpirituality, Bearings Review 2017
This summer, my two-year-old and I were driving on the way to some errand or another. His older sister was absent, over at a friend’s house to play. He found that he could chatter uninterrupted about whatever topic he wanted, a rare pleasure. Suddenly, he asked me...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 9, 2016 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturySpirituality, AboutBearings
As we ease into our third year of publication of The BTS Center’s award-winning blog, Bearings, co-editors Elizabeth Drescher and Alyssa Lodewick have been mulling the role of outlets like ours in shaping what the Church is becoming in a dynamic religious landscape....
