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A Year of Lessons Learned at Bearings

A Year of Lessons Learned at Bearings

by Kay Ahmed | Jul 5, 2018 | 21stCenturyMinistry, Bearings Review, Bearings Review 2018

In our most recent issue, we invited contributors to explore the lessons they’ve learned throughout their lives that speak to the opportunities and challenges of ministry in these times. Nicole Lamarche, a self-described “spiritual entrepreneur,” shared the joys and...
Giving Thanks in Thankless Times

Giving Thanks in Thankless Times

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...
Radical Gratitude as Resistance

Radical Gratitude as Resistance

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,...

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