by Kay Ahmed | Jun 7, 2019 | From the Editor, News
My friend Keith Anderson—a good friend of Bearings as well—has taken to the open road. He’s on pilgrimage along the famous, well-worn Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Portugal and Spain for eleven days. (You can follow his journey on his pilgrimage blog.) The...
by Kay Ahmed | Jun 7, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Featured Article
In the middle of my work as the social media assistant at Bearings Magazine, I came to an important, perspective changing realization: media is art. Surveying our contributors’ pieces, looking for quotes, scouring the internet for relevant pictures, and then diving...
by Kay Ahmed | Jun 7, 2019 | Coping, Featured Article
I remember leaving a message for my mom the last time she was in the hospital. I let her know that I would be leaving in the morning to visit and that I expected, as usual, that she would be fine by the time I got there. The conventional wisdom in my family was that...
by Kay Ahmed | Jun 7, 2019 | Creative Insights
As a pastor/professor I have always wondered about Matthew 2:14: “Out of Egypt I have called my son!” What does this mean for me, for Africans, for African Americans? Does this help us re-member or reclaim the African roots to our faith as Christians? To...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 7, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, From Our Archives, Lessons Learned
Do this. Don’t do that. Spend your time this way. Pray this way. Believe this. Reject that. This is the kind of rigidity that young people like me cannot stand when it comes to religion. We just don’t get it. Indeed, although many would probably not say so outright,...
