by Kay Ahmed | Apr 1, 2019 | Commentary
Perhaps you have noticed the increasingly large number of candidates putting their names forward for the Democratic presidential primary election. With the current president’s popularity in constant question and his policies being excoriated by every news outlet...
by Kay Ahmed | Mar 6, 2019 | 21stCenturyReligion, Commentary
Because of my academic training and religious history, and because I am a lifelong Seventh-day Adventist, I come to a view of Christian faith and church life that is steeped in questions of religious liberty, the separation of church and state, and the acceptable role...
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...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Nov 11, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, Gratitude
I’m going to put a whole lot of honesty on the table: I find the age we live in very disturbing. Perhaps you share my concern or, worse yet, have been the object of concern from the likes of me. The truth is, my peace has been disturbed. As an African-American man,...
