Bearings: Navigating Life-as-Ministry
November 2015

From Our Archives

Who Has The Right to Be Violent?

Jamye Wooten (, ). Posted in 21stCenturyCulture, Bearings Review 2016, From Our Archives.

In July I was invited to speak about the #BaltimoreUprising at the Duke Summer Institute for Reconciliation. My presentation focused on “Why We Cry, How We Cry and Who Can Cry?” in response to state violence. “Why We Cry” dealt with the systemic and structural violence in Baltimore City—the years of neglect, disinvestment and underdevelopment. “How We Cry (The... Read more

Gratitude

A Photographic Essay

John Hafford, Alyssa Lodewick (). Posted in Bearings Photo Essay.

Editor’s Introduction: Sometimes, words do not suffice—and yet, during a week marked by horrific bombings in Paris and Beirut and wrenching debates over welcoming refugees from Iraq and Syria to our shores, we have been bombarded by them. Words flowing out of the mouths of television analysts. Words marching across the pages of newspapers and newsmagazines. Words... Read more

Back to the Future of Religion

Does Demographic Research Create the Religious "Reality" It Describes?

Elizabeth Drescher (). Posted in 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturySpirituality.

If you somehow managed to Marty McFly yourself back to the High Middle Ages—the epoch of Christendom influence in the pre-Reformation West—you’d likely catch a glimpse of the future of faith even as you regarded the sights, sounds, and (alas) smells of its glorious past. And if you happened to be a researcher from the Pew Forum, survey form in hand, you might become... Read more

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