by social@thebtscenter.org | Oct 4, 2017 | 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Hope, Themes
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...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Sep 28, 2017 | 21stCenturyBible, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality
“Resilient” is what they call those of us who have overcome tremendous obstacles in order to thrive. Psychologists study the conditions of highly adaptive people who seem to defy the odds against them and conclude that those who are resilient have positive community...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Sep 21, 2017 | 21stCenturyMission
Hope on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time close to the gardens of broken shadows we do what the prisoners do and what the jobless do we cultivate hope. from “Under Siege” by Mahmoud Darwish In God’s garden of broken shadows, facing night and...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Sep 15, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMission, 21stCenturyReligion, Hope
Editorial Note: Throughout September, Bearings magazine will explore the theme of “Cultivating Hope.” This month’s contributors are all people of faith who inhabit different geographic, cultural, and social spaces. They thus offer richly diverse perspectives on the...
by Kay Ahmed | Sep 7, 2017 | AboutBearings, Hope, Themes
When we began Bearings three years ago—all the way back in the world of September 2014—we had some modest aspirations. In his introductory post, Bob Grove-Markwood contextualized the blog by drawing on his navigational experience as a Marine and a transplanted Mainer....
