Bearings: Navigating Life-as-Ministry
October 2017

Jesus is the tweet. You are the hashtag.

Reflecting on Life in the Digitally-Integrated Church

Pamela Shellberg (). Posted in 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, DigitalMinistry, Re-mediating Religion.

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 questions for further reflection by Bearings readers and the communities in which life-as-ministry plays... Read more

Re-Mediating the Global, Digital Body of Christ

A Conversation with Media Scholar Heidi Campbell

Elizabeth Drescher (). Posted in 21stCenturyMinistry, DigitalMinistry, Re-mediating Religion.

For more than a decade, new media, religion, and digital culture scholar Heidi Campbell of Texas A&M has been exploring the ways that the internet, social media, and other digital technologies engage with the religious and spiritual practices of ordinary people. Her more than seventy articles, books, and edited volumes have mapped how digital social networks... Read more

Hashtagging the Good News of Social Media

Jim Keat (). Posted in 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyMinistry, DigitalMinistry.

I thought about writing this piece the old fashioned way, with words forming sentences forming paragraphs and so on. But I realized that instead of writing an essay about hashtags, Twitter, and the good news of social media, the piece itself should embody its own content. As Marshall McLuhan reminded us in 1964, “the medium is the message.” The form of the medium... Read more

Re-Mediation in the D-I-Y Church

Keith Anderson (). Posted in 21stCenturyMinistry, 21stCenturyMission, DigitalMinistry, Re-mediating Religion, Themes.

Lately I’ve been thinking about a passage from the Gospel of John in which Jesus reminds Peter that our youthful vigor and self-determination will always fade. “Very truly, I tell you” Jesus says, “when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will... Read more

Hope Is a Map

Reflecting on Practices of Cultivating Hope

Pamela Shellberg (, ). Posted in 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Hope, Themes.

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 questions for further reflection by Bearings readers and the communities in which life-as-ministry plays... Read more

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