![[From Maine youth] Our Prayer for Justice](https://thebtscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/blog-post-feat-image-1080x675.png)
by social@thebtscenter.org | Aug 17, 2026 | Art and Creativity, Blog, Hope
Our longing for Justice is Rooted in the love for our global community: Every soul honored. Justice for those who are my people. Justice for those who aren’t. Justice for homeless people. Justice for the children being brought up in this oppressive world. Justice for...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 24, 2026 | Blog
When humans create art – in contrast with AI-generated attempts, the process is often messy, unwieldy, time-consuming, full of avenues started and perhaps abandoned, perhaps diverted. We so rarely end up exactly where we intended when we engage in the practice...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jan 3, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, From Our Archives, Sacred Space
The 1990s R&B girl group, Xscape, has a famous song entitled “Who Can I Run To?” The song discusses the complexity of whom to rely on when one needs love. I can relate. I entered my thirties this year full of hope, only to be hit with three significant losses in a...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Mar 2, 2018 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Small Church Vitality
The articles in this month’s Bearings magazine, “Small Is the New Big,” illuminate questions raised by the realities of small church ministry. In them we read eyewitness accounts of the spiritual energy in churches described as “small”—small that is, when the metric...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Nov 30, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Gratitude
Editors Note: Each month, Bearings contributors offer insights on a key theme in the practice of life-as-ministry. As the final installment in the issue, The BTS Center’s scholar-in-residence Pamela Shellberg, PhD reflects on the articles in the issue and poses...
