by Kay Ahmed | Apr 4, 2019 | From the Editor
In our five years of publications, Bearings Magazine has grown considerably. Beginning as a humble, weekly blog, we have developed into a full-fledged online, monthly magazine with thematic features engaging key issues in 21st-century ministry, creative insights from...
by Kay Ahmed | Apr 4, 2019 | Featured Article
Even in a time when formal religious affiliation and identification is declining, people typically associate religion and spirituality with specially designated spaces—churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, etc. But ordinary, local landscapes—neighborhoods, yards,...
by Kay Ahmed | Apr 4, 2019 | Featured Article
I don’t know why I stay. I was sixteen the first time I was warned my sexuality was incompatible with my salvation. I was eighteen when I watched Bishop Gene Robinson consecrated as the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church, his alb ill-fitting over the...
by Kay Ahmed | Apr 4, 2019 | Creative Insights
I am a scholar of art and religion. I also am an artist who dabbles in everything from painting to photography to mixed media. The daughter of a professor father and an artist mother, I split my time growing up between Claremont, California and summers on the...
by Kay Ahmed | Apr 1, 2019 | Commentary
Perhaps you have noticed the increasingly large number of candidates putting their names forward for the Democratic presidential primary election. With the current president’s popularity in constant question and his policies being excoriated by every news outlet...
