by social@thebtscenter.org | Jan 28, 2019 | From Our Archives
On January 21, a group of women from my congregation traveled to Augusta, Maine, for our nearest “sister march” to the Women’s March in Washington, DC. Too sick with a cold to join them for the march itself, I gathered with them anyway in our church parking lot to...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Feb 24, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry
I first encountered the calculated promulgation of “fake news”—or “propaganda,” to borrow an older term—as a governing strategy during a year of studying theology in the former East Germany. The Eastern Bloc nation tightly controlled the information available to the...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Feb 16, 2017 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, Bearings Review 2017
In a season where the leadership of the United States claims to be constructing “An Entirely New Political Movement,” many have echoed what activist and filmmaker Michael Moore said after November’s election: “We are going to resist … This is going to be a massive...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Feb 10, 2017 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturySpirituality, Events
The best sushi I ever tasted was handed to me fresh from the Sea of Galilee. I was the last customer at the restaurant when a fisherman brought it in. A Palestinian Christian waiter, the Jewish fisherman who caught the fish, and his Palestinian Muslim friend invited...
