The BTS Center
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The BTS Center offers theologically grounded programs of continuing education and spiritual formation, including workshops, retreats, learning cohorts and more.
https://thebtscenter.org/
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This holy month is a summons to purpose, community, and spiritual intimacy. Ramadan Mubarak, beloveds! May this be a month that nourishes our spirits and inclines us toward the good.
#climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #ramadan #ramadankareem #ramadanmubarak
#climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #ramadan #ramadankareem #ramadanmubarak
February 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
This holy month is a summons to purpose, community, and spiritual intimacy. Ramadan Mubarak, beloveds! May this be a month that nourishes our spirits and inclines us toward the good.
#climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #ramadan #ramadankareem #ramadanmubarak
#climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #ramadan #ramadankareem #ramadanmubarak
For the almost 2B people who celebrate the #LunarNewYear, today marks the beginning of this season of celebration. Each year is assigned to a non-human animal and an earthen element. We bid the year of the Wood Snake goodbye & welcome the year of the Fire Horse!
#lny #newyear #新年快乐 #恭喜发财 #年年有余
#lny #newyear #新年快乐 #恭喜发财 #年年有余
February 17, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Not all of us were voted Most Likely to Save the Rainforest in high school. In today's new episode of Climate Changed, Blair Nelsen and Kate André tell funny, relatable stories of becoming unexpected climate advocates.
Listen here: thebtscenter.org/climate-chan...
Listen here: thebtscenter.org/climate-chan...
February 17, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Not all of us were voted Most Likely to Save the Rainforest in high school. In today's new episode of Climate Changed, Blair Nelsen and Kate André tell funny, relatable stories of becoming unexpected climate advocates.
Listen here: thebtscenter.org/climate-chan...
Listen here: thebtscenter.org/climate-chan...
Thank you to our friends at @faithinplace for denouncing and clearly explaining an anti-human rule by this U.S. administration's EPA.
"We may have lost this ruling, but we have not lost the fight. The courts will have more to say and together, we will keep up the pressure...."
"We may have lost this ruling, but we have not lost the fight. The courts will have more to say and together, we will keep up the pressure...."
Faith in Place Denounces EPA’s Final Rule on Endangerment Finding as a Moral Failing
CHICAGO, IL — Today, the EPA issued a final rule rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding. The decision effectively ends federal authority to regulate the emissions fueling the climate crisis.This…
www.faithinplace.org
February 14, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Thank you to our friends at @faithinplace for denouncing and clearly explaining an anti-human rule by this U.S. administration's EPA.
"We may have lost this ruling, but we have not lost the fight. The courts will have more to say and together, we will keep up the pressure...."
"We may have lost this ruling, but we have not lost the fight. The courts will have more to say and together, we will keep up the pressure...."
Maine friends: will you be our Valentine tomorrow (Saturday) at the Osher Map Library?
We'll be with our friends from COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) learning about and expressing our love for this unique ecosystem...
We'll be with our friends from COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) learning about and expressing our love for this unique ecosystem...
February 13, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Maine friends: will you be our Valentine tomorrow (Saturday) at the Osher Map Library?
We'll be with our friends from COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) learning about and expressing our love for this unique ecosystem...
We'll be with our friends from COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) learning about and expressing our love for this unique ecosystem...
Tomorrow (Friday, February 13) our friends at @QueerlyME are hosting a training on cultivating connection. Come to Twice Sold Tales in Farmington, ME, to learn about the public health crisis of loneliness and isolation, and how we can...
February 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Tomorrow (Friday, February 13) our friends at @QueerlyME are hosting a training on cultivating connection. Come to Twice Sold Tales in Farmington, ME, to learn about the public health crisis of loneliness and isolation, and how we can...
Congratulations to Norma Kawelokū Wong, Zen teacher and Indigenous Hawaiian leader, on the release of her newest book – Who We Are Becoming Matters: The Courage, Wisdom, and Aloha We Need in the Timeplace of Collapse.
Norma will be one of our guests on Climate Changed season 4, and...
Norma will be one of our guests on Climate Changed season 4, and...
February 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Congratulations to Norma Kawelokū Wong, Zen teacher and Indigenous Hawaiian leader, on the release of her newest book – Who We Are Becoming Matters: The Courage, Wisdom, and Aloha We Need in the Timeplace of Collapse.
Norma will be one of our guests on Climate Changed season 4, and...
Norma will be one of our guests on Climate Changed season 4, and...
Our friends Parivash and Nasser Rohani, Baháʼí leaders in Maine, are leading a special presentation on Iran and the #OurStoryIsOne initiative – tomorrow, Thursday, February 12. This offering is part of this year’s Camden Conference.
Come to learn about Iran's past and present...
Come to learn about Iran's past and present...
February 11, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Our friends Parivash and Nasser Rohani, Baháʼí leaders in Maine, are leading a special presentation on Iran and the #OurStoryIsOne initiative – tomorrow, Thursday, February 12. This offering is part of this year’s Camden Conference.
Come to learn about Iran's past and present...
Come to learn about Iran's past and present...
Maine friends: will you be our Valentine this Saturday at the Osher Map Library?
We'll be with our friends from COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) co-creating a ritual of love and appreciation for this unique ecosystem – and we can't do it without you...
We'll be with our friends from COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) co-creating a ritual of love and appreciation for this unique ecosystem – and we can't do it without you...
February 11, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Maine friends: will you be our Valentine this Saturday at the Osher Map Library?
We'll be with our friends from COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) co-creating a ritual of love and appreciation for this unique ecosystem – and we can't do it without you...
We'll be with our friends from COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) co-creating a ritual of love and appreciation for this unique ecosystem – and we can't do it without you...
How has your own mind been changed? By facts, by connection, by relationship?
"The problem is that the strategies most helpful for addressing ignorance actively trigger denial.
Learning to address denial, rather than ignorance, therefore requires...
"The problem is that the strategies most helpful for addressing ignorance actively trigger denial.
Learning to address denial, rather than ignorance, therefore requires...
February 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
How has your own mind been changed? By facts, by connection, by relationship?
"The problem is that the strategies most helpful for addressing ignorance actively trigger denial.
Learning to address denial, rather than ignorance, therefore requires...
"The problem is that the strategies most helpful for addressing ignorance actively trigger denial.
Learning to address denial, rather than ignorance, therefore requires...
Our friends at Creation Justice Ministries have just put out their beautiful annual resource for congregations. Through the entry point of trees and canopies, you'll find sermon starters, prayers, original songs, children's activities...
February 9, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Our friends at Creation Justice Ministries have just put out their beautiful annual resource for congregations. Through the entry point of trees and canopies, you'll find sermon starters, prayers, original songs, children's activities...
In our Lenten book study selection, author Daniel Cooperrider challenges us to “reread the Bible in a living, breathing, yearning, determined search for God from the perspective of nature.”
Sign up to read and explore this poetic invitation together: thebtscenter.org/bookstudy-le...
Sign up to read and explore this poetic invitation together: thebtscenter.org/bookstudy-le...
February 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM
In our Lenten book study selection, author Daniel Cooperrider challenges us to “reread the Bible in a living, breathing, yearning, determined search for God from the perspective of nature.”
Sign up to read and explore this poetic invitation together: thebtscenter.org/bookstudy-le...
Sign up to read and explore this poetic invitation together: thebtscenter.org/bookstudy-le...
We celebrate this week's start of Conversation Circles – the fourth year of these generative communities for chaplains and other spiritual care providers. Participants are guided by devoted facilitators as they co-create space for professional ideation and spiritual nourishment.
February 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
We celebrate this week's start of Conversation Circles – the fourth year of these generative communities for chaplains and other spiritual care providers. Participants are guided by devoted facilitators as they co-create space for professional ideation and spiritual nourishment.
Eco-writers, you are keepers of truth and wonder. Poets, journalists, academics, liturgists, speculative fiction-writers, and more:
We invite you to a writing retreat where you can tend your craft and your spirit alike. Five days lakeside in northern Massachusetts...
We invite you to a writing retreat where you can tend your craft and your spirit alike. Five days lakeside in northern Massachusetts...
February 5, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Eco-writers, you are keepers of truth and wonder. Poets, journalists, academics, liturgists, speculative fiction-writers, and more:
We invite you to a writing retreat where you can tend your craft and your spirit alike. Five days lakeside in northern Massachusetts...
We invite you to a writing retreat where you can tend your craft and your spirit alike. Five days lakeside in northern Massachusetts...
If you're carrying the heaviness of this past month with you, come let a community hold it with you this evening. It'll do us good to be with you, too.
Lament With Earth is a cycle of virtual events with song, ritual, prayer, and the company of caring space-holders...
Lament With Earth is a cycle of virtual events with song, ritual, prayer, and the company of caring space-holders...
February 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
If you're carrying the heaviness of this past month with you, come let a community hold it with you this evening. It'll do us good to be with you, too.
Lament With Earth is a cycle of virtual events with song, ritual, prayer, and the company of caring space-holders...
Lament With Earth is a cycle of virtual events with song, ritual, prayer, and the company of caring space-holders...
The children of Flint, MI, who endured the city's lead poisoning crisis, are teenagers now – some of them environmental activists. Right now, a round of misinformation is making its way across social media claiming that the city's water is now safe to drink...
Photo: AP / Andrew Harnik
Photo: AP / Andrew Harnik
February 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
The children of Flint, MI, who endured the city's lead poisoning crisis, are teenagers now – some of them environmental activists. Right now, a round of misinformation is making its way across social media claiming that the city's water is now safe to drink...
Photo: AP / Andrew Harnik
Photo: AP / Andrew Harnik
Our climate-changed world demands ever more from us: more presence, more love, more
courage, more capacity to hold grief.
In response, we're inviting you to group-based spiritual accompaniment for respite and discernment. Our groups for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals are offered free of charge...
courage, more capacity to hold grief.
In response, we're inviting you to group-based spiritual accompaniment for respite and discernment. Our groups for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals are offered free of charge...
January 30, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Our climate-changed world demands ever more from us: more presence, more love, more
courage, more capacity to hold grief.
In response, we're inviting you to group-based spiritual accompaniment for respite and discernment. Our groups for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals are offered free of charge...
courage, more capacity to hold grief.
In response, we're inviting you to group-based spiritual accompaniment for respite and discernment. Our groups for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals are offered free of charge...
Here in Maine, the ICE occupation is not over, though the most public facets of this menace have quieted. Your courage and creativity are still needed to confront the human harms of our climate-changed world...
January 30, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Here in Maine, the ICE occupation is not over, though the most public facets of this menace have quieted. Your courage and creativity are still needed to confront the human harms of our climate-changed world...
Claiming Your Call is a retreat and year-long learning community for congregations discerning their collective call in a climate-changed world.
A climate-changed world is one where extreme weather, human conflict, and division may increase, and...
A climate-changed world is one where extreme weather, human conflict, and division may increase, and...
January 29, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Claiming Your Call is a retreat and year-long learning community for congregations discerning their collective call in a climate-changed world.
A climate-changed world is one where extreme weather, human conflict, and division may increase, and...
A climate-changed world is one where extreme weather, human conflict, and division may increase, and...
We were here. Praying for Sen. Susan Collins to vote "no" on the DHS funding bill that would keep funding the ICE occupation here in Maine, in MN, and around the nation.
We're grateful to our faith leader colleagues for this collective cry for justice. The Senator has not been receptive...
We're grateful to our faith leader colleagues for this collective cry for justice. The Senator has not been receptive...
Nine faith leaders arrested at 'pray-in' at Susan Collins' Portland office
Nine local clergy and faith leaders were arrested on charges of criminal trespassing during a "pray-in" outside of Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins' downtown Portland office on Tuesday.
mainepublic.org
January 28, 2026 at 7:19 PM
We were here. Praying for Sen. Susan Collins to vote "no" on the DHS funding bill that would keep funding the ICE occupation here in Maine, in MN, and around the nation.
We're grateful to our faith leader colleagues for this collective cry for justice. The Senator has not been receptive...
We're grateful to our faith leader colleagues for this collective cry for justice. The Senator has not been receptive...
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. We stretch our spirits to hold, simultaneously, the suffering and oppressions our kin experience today – as well as the singular evil that was the Holocaust...
January 27, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. We stretch our spirits to hold, simultaneously, the suffering and oppressions our kin experience today – as well as the singular evil that was the Holocaust...
"I think societies live on because they keep to three basic human qualities: mutuality, morality, and awe. In times of social dissolution, human survival depends on individuals’ commitment to what is best in themselves and necessary to the species..."
January 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
"I think societies live on because they keep to three basic human qualities: mutuality, morality, and awe. In times of social dissolution, human survival depends on individuals’ commitment to what is best in themselves and necessary to the species..."
Rev. Nicole Diroff and Autumn Brown (co-host, How to Survive the End of the World) are excited to share Season 4 of Climate Changed with you in March.
If you've listened to previous seasons, then you know Climate Changed is full of deep and meaningful conversations that can...
If you've listened to previous seasons, then you know Climate Changed is full of deep and meaningful conversations that can...
January 23, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Rev. Nicole Diroff and Autumn Brown (co-host, How to Survive the End of the World) are excited to share Season 4 of Climate Changed with you in March.
If you've listened to previous seasons, then you know Climate Changed is full of deep and meaningful conversations that can...
If you've listened to previous seasons, then you know Climate Changed is full of deep and meaningful conversations that can...
Minneapolis clergy put out a call to religious leaders everywhere. And religious leaders have shown up.
Likewise here in Maine, religious leaders including here at The BTS Center are teaming up to form shields of compassion for vulnerable people heading to work...
Likewise here in Maine, religious leaders including here at The BTS Center are teaming up to form shields of compassion for vulnerable people heading to work...
Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS…
religionnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Minneapolis clergy put out a call to religious leaders everywhere. And religious leaders have shown up.
Likewise here in Maine, religious leaders including here at The BTS Center are teaming up to form shields of compassion for vulnerable people heading to work...
Likewise here in Maine, religious leaders including here at The BTS Center are teaming up to form shields of compassion for vulnerable people heading to work...
"Calling" isn't just for individuals. Or clergy.
What is your congregation's calling? In its unique community and ecosystem? With its unique members and gifts?
We're delighted to open applications for Claiming Your Call For a Climate-Changed World...
What is your congregation's calling? In its unique community and ecosystem? With its unique members and gifts?
We're delighted to open applications for Claiming Your Call For a Climate-Changed World...
January 22, 2026 at 8:43 PM
"Calling" isn't just for individuals. Or clergy.
What is your congregation's calling? In its unique community and ecosystem? With its unique members and gifts?
We're delighted to open applications for Claiming Your Call For a Climate-Changed World...
What is your congregation's calling? In its unique community and ecosystem? With its unique members and gifts?
We're delighted to open applications for Claiming Your Call For a Climate-Changed World...