by Kay Ahmed | Nov 7, 2019 | From the Editor, Media
I’ve started on the introduction to this issue of Bearings magazine on brave change maybe twenty times in the past couple weeks. Then I’ve stopped. That’s the thing about change—how often halting and unsteady it is, how seldom it is a matter of...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 7, 2019 | From The BTS Center's Executive Director
With this issue of Bearings, Elizabeth Drescher, friend and consulting scholar with The BTS Center from its earliest days, puts down her editor’s pen, wrapping up this project which has been her labor of love for the past five-plus years. We can’t let this moment pass...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 7, 2019 | Featured Article
When I set out to do research for what became a book, Our Lady of Everyday Life, on the devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, or “La Virgen,” as Mexican Catholics including those that have left the church refer to her, I knew little of the kind of journey I was about to...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 7, 2019 | 21stCenturySpirituality, Featured Article
As the sailboat continued to rise about the white capped waves, I gripped the side and leaned back as far as I dared trying to drive the boat down flat on the water. My feet slipped on wet floorboards and someone yelled, his voice constricted into a high-pitched...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 7, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, Commentary
For people in ministry, one of the most frustrating phrases to hear from congregants and committees is, “But we’ve never done it that way before.” There is often a lot packed into that one sentence—fear (of risk, of failure), hesitation around trusting the pastoral...
