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 | Sep 10, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, From the Editor, Immigration
Coming back from what seems to be an increasingly shorter summer hiatus, we often incline to focus Bearings on somewhat more congenial concerns by way of ramping into a publication season that we know will face its share of challenges. But this time around, living in...
by Kay Ahmed | May 2, 2019 | From the Editor
Some years ago I gave a talk at a now-defunct seminary in which I argued, surely less eloquently than I might have liked, that a critical postmodern challenge for people in ministry was developing scientific literacy and fluency. I took as my starting point Albert...
by Kay Ahmed | Mar 7, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, From the Editor
As we begin the Lenten season in our various ways across the church, Bearings contributors have been mulling what the traditions of the seasons mean in these times—especially the practice of giving up something of significance to experience a wee bit, or at least...
by Kay Ahmed | Jan 31, 2019 | From the Editor, News
It’s easy to make February about a certain kind of love—the sweet, sentimental, Valentines’ Day kind, all wrapped in pretty paper and offered up with chocolates and and a saccharine greeting cards with lacy hearts and ribbons. Maybe there’s a place...
