The Summer Send-Off Issue
Slow Walking into the Next 5 Years of the Bearings Pilgrimage
Slow Walking into the Next 5 Years of the Bearings Pilgrimage
Painting with Boldness, Brightness, and Beauty
What My Mom’s Cancer Allowed Me to Learn about Religion and Coping
Revisiting the Roots of African American Christianity
And Other Lessons Learned from the Real Lives of College Students
The 2019 end-of-year issue of Bearings offers a range of fare for reading, viewing, and reflection as we send ourselves into the lazier days of summer.
Summer is traditionally a time of travel, of course, and this “Summer Send-Off” issue acknowledges important journeys for Bearings and The BTS Center. Our stellar social media marketing assistant, Claire Dixon, who leaves us this summer to take up her post-graduation marketing communications career, shares insights on social media ministry with young adults in “Social Media as Art.” Earlier Bearings editorial assistant, Nick Nagy, who has published previously in the magazine, heads to Africa with the Peace Corps to teach English in Zambia. And, the founding Executive Director of The BTS Center, Bob Grove-Markwood, heads into a new life adventure as a full-time spouse and grandpa. We share some of Nick’s and Bob’s contributions to the magazine From Our Archives.
We are so grateful for all of the insight, energy, and vision shared by these amazing companions. But the journey at Bearings moves onward nonetheless, a path marked in this issue with a video travel journal from religion scholar and filmmaker, Ralph Basui Watkins, who takes the call of Matthew 2:14—”Out of Egypt I have called my son!” — as the backdrop for a return to the roots of African American Christianity. Journey with him in our Creative Insights section.
Slow Walking into the Next 5 Years of the Bearings Pilgrimage
Elizabeth Drescher (Summer Send-Off | June 2019). Posted in From the Editor.
Painting with Boldness, Brightness, and Beauty
Claire Dixon (Summer Send-Off | June 2019). Posted in 21stCenturyMinistry, Featured Article.
What My Mom’s Cancer Allowed Me to Learn about Religion and Coping
Jaime Wright (Summer Send-Off | June 2019). Posted in Coping, Featured Article.
Revisiting the Roots of African American Christianity
Ralph Basui Watkins (Summer Send-Off | June 2019). Posted in Creative Insights.
And Other Lessons Learned from the Real Lives of College Students
Nick Nagy (June 2018, Summer Send-Off | June 2019). Posted in 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, From Our Archives, Lessons Learned.
Robert Grove-Markwood (February 2015, Summer Send-Off | June 2019). Posted in 21stCenturyMinistry, From Our Archives.
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