by social@thebtscenter.org | May 9, 2018 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyReligion, Becoming Church
The articles in the recent “Becoming Church” issue of Bearings have a different character than many of the articles we’ve published on the topic of the change in the 21st century church. We might say that, up until now, many articles have been descriptive; that...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Apr 12, 2018 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, Becoming Church, DigitalMinistry
A decade and a half ago, Heidi’s book, Exploring Religious Communities Online, documented how traits of early forms of online religious communities emerging in the late 1990s posed both a potential challenge and opportunity to offline churches. These early “virtual...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Oct 27, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, DigitalMinistry, Re-mediating Religion
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...