by Kay Ahmed | Apr 4, 2019 | Featured Article
Even in a time when formal religious affiliation and identification is declining, people typically associate religion and spirituality with specially designated spaces—churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, etc. But ordinary, local landscapes—neighborhoods, yards,...
by Kay Ahmed | Jan 31, 2019 | 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyReligion, Featured Article
Reina had walked for more than 20 days, in the rain and cold and mud. Grief-stricken after the loss of her son, she walked with one destination in mind: a country she hoped would be her safe-harbor, a new beginning, free from the fear and the violence she had known....
by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 21, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Sacred Space
It is dark. Rain falls soft and visible from beneath the streetlights. Heard faintly in the cacophony of the night is a homeless man yelling something into the air. Something indeterminate. Unsettling. Avoidingly, nervously, people walk past. Through the glass windows...
