by Kay Ahmed | Dec 5, 2019 | From Our Archives
It was a damp and windy February day in 1991 when I walked those few solemn blocks. With trepidation I swung open the heavy door and for the first time entered a beautiful but cavernous space. As I slowly made my way down the aisle, about twelve men, some quite...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 4, 2018 | From the Editor
On October 27, 2018, a man walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in the predominantly Jewish Squirrel Hill neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Mr. Roger’s actual neighborhood, as media reports like to point out. There, fueled by rabid anti-Semitic and...
by Kay Ahmed | Nov 2, 2018 | Creative Insights
The poet Gerald Stern (b. 1925) had much in common with the 11 members of Tree of Life Synagogue who were murdered on October 27. He was raised by immigrant parents in a Jewish household not far from the synagogue, in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood....
by social@thebtscenter.org | Oct 21, 2016 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, Bearings Review 2017, From Our Archives
It’s not news to say that this has been a crazy, rancorous election season—perhaps the most ugly in modern history, many pundits claim. Maybe. But when I reflect back on earlier election cycles, there seems to have been plenty of media-infused hostility that we tend...
