The BTS Center is pleased to welcome Rev. Ash Temin to its staff team, serving in the role of Communications Manager. Ash has been collaborating with The BTS Center over the past several weeks as a program consultant, assisting with some fall programming, and she officially assumes this new role effective October 25.

 

Rev. Ash Temin is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who offers spiritual direction and contemplative grief accompaniment through her independent practice in Portland, Maine. A graduate of the University of Virginia (BA), the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin (MPhil), and Harvard Divinity School (MDiv), Ash brings a passion for ecological theology and a particular interest in the experience of ecological grief. Prior to moving to Portland, she served as an Acting Associate Pastor at Hope Central Church, a UCC/DOC congregation in Boston, where she has been and continues to be a part of the leadership initiatives for racial justice and reparations. Before answering the call to ordination, Ash worked in various administrative roles at Harvard University. She also has worked as a hospital and hospice chaplain, a freelance editor, and as a family minister at a Catholic church in Colorado.

 

After time spent living in Texas, Virginia, Colorado, Ireland, and Massachusetts, Ash is grateful to make her home in Maine, where she spends part of most days walking on the shores of Casco Bay. When not absorbed in work, she can be found cooking with friends, laying in her garden hammock, hiking in the woods, playing in the ocean, or attempting to learn the Irish language with a cat on her lap.

 

In her role as Communications Manager, Ash will work closely with The BTS Center's team, overseeing external communications, producing high-quality content that engages constituents, ensuring consistency of messaging, and helping to promote programs that align with the organization’s mission, vision, and core values.

 

With roots dating back to 1814, The BTS Center is a 501(c)(3) private operating foundation in Portland, Maine, building on the legacy of the former Bangor Theological Seminary. Although no longer a degree-awarding institution, today The BTS Center seeks to catalyze spiritual imagination with enduring wisdom for transformative faith leadership by offering theologically grounded programs of continuing education and spiritual formation, including workshops and retreats, learning cohorts, public conversations, and projects of applied research. Inspired by the vision of human hearts renewed, justice established, and creation restored, today The BTS Center is focusing its programmatic attention on spiritual and vocational formation for effective and faithful leadership in a time of global climate devastation.