Bearings: Navigating Life-as-Ministry
Into the Wild | October 2018

Into the Wild

The New! Improved! Bearings magazine is here! Over the summer—and, okay, a bit into the fall—we’ve been working on redesigning Bearings to better support 21^st century ministry leaders in navigating life-as-ministry. In our first new issue, “Into the Wild,” we’re exploring what it means to approach wilderness as a site of physical and metaphorical engagement with forces that might be out of our control. How can the challenges of the wilderness form us for richer engagement with “civilization”? Features by Aram Mitchell and Pam Shellberg as well as Connor Holttum share the fruits of wilderness exploration with Bearings readers. In a different neck of the woods, in our new Creative Insights section, Mark Collins navigates the lessons that the craft of woodworking and the insights of Plato hammer—sometimes literally—into us. Finally, Elizabeth Drescher offers Commentary on the process of getting our bearings and finding our voices, from blog to magazine, over the past four years and what that calls us to in the world as it is today.