by social@thebtscenter.org | Jul 27, 2026 | Art and Creativity, Blog, Books, Creative Insights, Events, From the Editor, Programs, Sacred Space
Scientists pen memoirs. Preachers sing the blues. Historians catalog their prayers, and homileticians dream in sci-fi, and clergy tell new origin stories, and all creation praises: for the Love of it all. A thousand beautiful things happened in the meeting of...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jun 3, 2026 | Blog, From The BTS Center's Executive Director, Immigration, Small Church Vitality
Recently, The BTS Center hosted our third annual Green Teams Gathering, which drew together almost 100 people representing congregational Green Teams, Climate Action Teams, Social Justice Teams, and ecologically grounded communities of faith. Our keynote...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Jan 3, 2019 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, From Our Archives, Sacred Space
The 1990s R&B girl group, Xscape, has a famous song entitled “Who Can I Run To?” The song discusses the complexity of whom to rely on when one needs love. I can relate. I entered my thirties this year full of hope, only to be hit with three significant losses in a...
by social@thebtscenter.org | Dec 29, 2017 | 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturySpirituality, Uncategorized
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...
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...
