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Where Can I Run To?

Where Can I Run To?

by social@thebtscenter.org | Jan 3, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, From Our Archives, Sacred Space

The 1990s R&B girl group, Xscape, has a famous song entitled “Who Can I Run To?” The song discusses the complexity of whom to rely on when one needs love. I can relate. I entered my thirties this year full of hope, only to be hit with three significant losses in a...
Claiming, Cultivating & Creating Sacred Space

Claiming, Cultivating & Creating Sacred Space

by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 29, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturySpirituality, Uncategorized

Editors Note: Each month, Bearings contributors offer insights on a key theme in the practice of life-as-ministry. As the final installment in the issue, The BTS Center’s scholar-in-residence Pamela Shellberg, PhD reflects on the articles in the issue and poses...
Make a Place for Yourself in the Darkness

Make a Place for Yourself in the Darkness

by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 21, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Sacred Space

It is dark. Rain falls soft and visible from beneath the streetlights. Heard faintly in the cacophony of the night is a homeless man yelling something into the air. Something indeterminate. Unsettling. Avoidingly, nervously, people walk past. Through the glass windows...
How the Grinch Told Christmas

How the Grinch Told Christmas

by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 7, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturySpirituality, Sacred Space, Uncategorized

The end of the year is upon us. And end is where we shall start: this tale will end with poorly described travelogue of where to find your sacred space hidden in this year’s festivities, mostly through the process of elimination. Or maybe not. Actually you might want...

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