by Kay Ahmed | Apr 27, 2018 | 21stCenturyCulture, Becoming Church
This week the Pew Forum reported that belief in God—the transcendent, supernatural being who intervenes in human history and forms often deeply personal relationships with humans, according to the scriptures revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims—remains strong...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 20, 2018 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality
It was May, 1965 when a group of African-American Episcopalians from the Episcopal Society for Culture and Racial Unity, also known as ESCRU, attempted to enter an Episcopal Church in St. Augustine, Florida for Sunday mass. As explored in United By Faith: The...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 12, 2018 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, Becoming Church, DigitalMinistry
A decade and a half ago, Heidi’s book, Exploring Religious Communities Online, documented how traits of early forms of online religious communities emerging in the late 1990s posed both a potential challenge and opportunity to offline churches. These early “virtual...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
On a recent Saturday around sunset, a group of 40 people gathered in the chapel of our suburban Connecticut “tall steeple church” for “Evensong,” a weekly contemporary Christian service we have offered since September. Imagined and led by our associate pastor, it is...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 3, 2018 | Art and Creativity
The three essays in this month’s magazine describe some ways creativity is being cultivated in some churches and church-like spaces. There are varied expressions highlighted: there is poetry; there is music; there is visual art. Ellen McGrath Smith describes The...
