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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For those celebrating Advent, this first week is a station on the practice of hope.
Whether you're mourning the forever loss of species and ecosystems,
whether you're enraged by tyranny,
whether you're tired from caregiving,
whether you're putting your head down in the unglamorous everyday...
Whether you're mourning the forever loss of species and ecosystems,
whether you're enraged by tyranny,
whether you're tired from caregiving,
whether you're putting your head down in the unglamorous everyday...
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
For those celebrating Advent, this first week is a station on the practice of hope.
Whether you're mourning the forever loss of species and ecosystems,
whether you're enraged by tyranny,
whether you're tired from caregiving,
whether you're putting your head down in the unglamorous everyday...
Whether you're mourning the forever loss of species and ecosystems,
whether you're enraged by tyranny,
whether you're tired from caregiving,
whether you're putting your head down in the unglamorous everyday...
Anxiety is fraying our social infrastructure – families, workplaces, friendships, communities. But spiritual care can be part of the antidote.
Next Tues, Dec 9 from 12-1pm ET, come learn what constitutes good medicine to help support a spiritual and ethical life characterized by connection...
Next Tues, Dec 9 from 12-1pm ET, come learn what constitutes good medicine to help support a spiritual and ethical life characterized by connection...
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Anxiety is fraying our social infrastructure – families, workplaces, friendships, communities. But spiritual care can be part of the antidote.
Next Tues, Dec 9 from 12-1pm ET, come learn what constitutes good medicine to help support a spiritual and ethical life characterized by connection...
Next Tues, Dec 9 from 12-1pm ET, come learn what constitutes good medicine to help support a spiritual and ethical life characterized by connection...
Up this way on the east coast of the Americas, a slow and steady snow is accumulating. A brief meditation on its arrival.
#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnvironmentalJustice #snow
#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnvironmentalJustice #snow
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Up this way on the east coast of the Americas, a slow and steady snow is accumulating. A brief meditation on its arrival.
#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnvironmentalJustice #snow
#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnvironmentalJustice #snow
Peterson Toscano, who produces our podcast Climate Changed, gives us a peek into the creative process behind the video he created for "Woven Again" by Pax Ressler. The song is a keening for kinship with the earth.
December 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Peterson Toscano, who produces our podcast Climate Changed, gives us a peek into the creative process behind the video he created for "Woven Again" by Pax Ressler. The song is a keening for kinship with the earth.
Peterson Toscano, who produces our podcast Climate Changed, writes about the creative process behind the video he created for "Woven Again" by Pax Ressler. The song is a keening for kinship with the earth...
Rupture & Repair: How I Made the Music Video
for "Woven Again" by Pax Ressler
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Peterson Toscano, who produces our podcast Climate Changed, writes about the creative process behind the video he created for "Woven Again" by Pax Ressler. The song is a keening for kinship with the earth...
Lyrics by Frank Ticheli:
Sing, Be, Live, See.
This dark stormy hour,
The wind, it stirs.
The scorched earth cries out in vain:
O war and power,
You blind and blur,
The torn heart cries out in pain....
Watch the performance by Voces8 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p8P...
Sing, Be, Live, See.
This dark stormy hour,
The wind, it stirs.
The scorched earth cries out in vain:
O war and power,
You blind and blur,
The torn heart cries out in pain....
Watch the performance by Voces8 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p8P...
VOCES8 - Earth Song
Music video by VOCES8 performing Earth Song. (C) 2020 VOCES8 Records
http://vevo.ly/pGujRJ
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Lyrics by Frank Ticheli:
Sing, Be, Live, See.
This dark stormy hour,
The wind, it stirs.
The scorched earth cries out in vain:
O war and power,
You blind and blur,
The torn heart cries out in pain....
Watch the performance by Voces8 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p8P...
Sing, Be, Live, See.
This dark stormy hour,
The wind, it stirs.
The scorched earth cries out in vain:
O war and power,
You blind and blur,
The torn heart cries out in pain....
Watch the performance by Voces8 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p8P...
Says The BTS Center's Ash Temin about this holiday:
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Says The BTS Center's Ash Temin about this holiday:
When talking to friends & family about climate change:
1. Remember you're in really good company.
2. Start down in the dirt: relationships & values.
(3 & 4 on next thread)
1. Remember you're in really good company.
2. Start down in the dirt: relationships & values.
(3 & 4 on next thread)
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
When talking to friends & family about climate change:
1. Remember you're in really good company.
2. Start down in the dirt: relationships & values.
(3 & 4 on next thread)
1. Remember you're in really good company.
2. Start down in the dirt: relationships & values.
(3 & 4 on next thread)
Our partner One Home One Future's collected resources is for Christian, Jewish, multi-faith, + secular eco-spiritual people. This page exists to help us observe year-end holidays while celebrating the more-than-human world.
For resources & more, click here: www.onehomeonefuture.org/sustainable-...
For resources & more, click here: www.onehomeonefuture.org/sustainable-...
Sustainable Holidays | One Home One Future
Home
www.onehomeonefuture.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our partner One Home One Future's collected resources is for Christian, Jewish, multi-faith, + secular eco-spiritual people. This page exists to help us observe year-end holidays while celebrating the more-than-human world.
For resources & more, click here: www.onehomeonefuture.org/sustainable-...
For resources & more, click here: www.onehomeonefuture.org/sustainable-...
Our friends at the Maine School of Ministry (ME Conference of the UCC) now have details available for their spring semester. Head to their website for more details on:
- Organizing for Relationships and Repair
- Intergenerational Spiritual Care and Nurture
and more: www.maineucc.org/mesom/
- Organizing for Relationships and Repair
- Intergenerational Spiritual Care and Nurture
and more: www.maineucc.org/mesom/
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Our friends at the Maine School of Ministry (ME Conference of the UCC) now have details available for their spring semester. Head to their website for more details on:
- Organizing for Relationships and Repair
- Intergenerational Spiritual Care and Nurture
and more: www.maineucc.org/mesom/
- Organizing for Relationships and Repair
- Intergenerational Spiritual Care and Nurture
and more: www.maineucc.org/mesom/
Part 2 of Murmurations: Fall 2025 is here! Chaplains and spiritual care providers, this is an offering for you.
In this installation, you'll learn about one spiritual care provider's vocation – a meeting place of "I want to" and "I need to."
Find parts 1 + 2 here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...
In this installation, you'll learn about one spiritual care provider's vocation – a meeting place of "I want to" and "I need to."
Find parts 1 + 2 here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...
November 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Part 2 of Murmurations: Fall 2025 is here! Chaplains and spiritual care providers, this is an offering for you.
In this installation, you'll learn about one spiritual care provider's vocation – a meeting place of "I want to" and "I need to."
Find parts 1 + 2 here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...
In this installation, you'll learn about one spiritual care provider's vocation – a meeting place of "I want to" and "I need to."
Find parts 1 + 2 here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...
TOMORROW, @StellarStory Company is putting on an invaluable storytelling workshop. Heart-change work often hinges on the immeasurable grace and challenge of storytelling.
Come to polish the gift for your story for the love of the human & beyond-human world.
thebtscenter.org/event/storyt...
Come to polish the gift for your story for the love of the human & beyond-human world.
thebtscenter.org/event/storyt...
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
TOMORROW, @StellarStory Company is putting on an invaluable storytelling workshop. Heart-change work often hinges on the immeasurable grace and challenge of storytelling.
Come to polish the gift for your story for the love of the human & beyond-human world.
thebtscenter.org/event/storyt...
Come to polish the gift for your story for the love of the human & beyond-human world.
thebtscenter.org/event/storyt...
Executive Director Rev. Dr. Allen Ewing-Merrill reflects on The BTS Center's recent board & staff retreat. "...top of mind for each of us was you — the courageous, creative, wise, and faithful people who comprise the wider BTS Center community..."
Read on: thebtscenter.org/the-bts-cent...
Read on: thebtscenter.org/the-bts-cent...
The BTS Center’s Board and Staff Gather | The BTS Center
Written by Allen Ewing-Merrill
thebtscenter.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Executive Director Rev. Dr. Allen Ewing-Merrill reflects on The BTS Center's recent board & staff retreat. "...top of mind for each of us was you — the courageous, creative, wise, and faithful people who comprise the wider BTS Center community..."
Read on: thebtscenter.org/the-bts-cent...
Read on: thebtscenter.org/the-bts-cent...
Ours is a climate changed world.
"[W]e are being forced to adapt to new conditions on a climate-altered planet. Many already are, especially the most vulnerable among us."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"[W]e are being forced to adapt to new conditions on a climate-altered planet. Many already are, especially the most vulnerable among us."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Ours is a climate changed world.
"[W]e are being forced to adapt to new conditions on a climate-altered planet. Many already are, especially the most vulnerable among us."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"[W]e are being forced to adapt to new conditions on a climate-altered planet. Many already are, especially the most vulnerable among us."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In you are stories of encounter and transformation with the beyond-human world. This Thursday, learn to hone those stories for impact with Cheryl Hamilton of Stellar Story Company offering valuable coaching and a container for community.
Register here: thebtscenter.org/event/storyt...
Register here: thebtscenter.org/event/storyt...
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In you are stories of encounter and transformation with the beyond-human world. This Thursday, learn to hone those stories for impact with Cheryl Hamilton of Stellar Story Company offering valuable coaching and a container for community.
Register here: thebtscenter.org/event/storyt...
Register here: thebtscenter.org/event/storyt...
Spiritual care providers: you’re invited to a discussion with justice advocates and social scientists Sarah Jaquette Ray & Joshua Moses.
Anxiety is fraying our social infrastructure: friendships, work, school, and community.
Anxiety is fraying our social infrastructure: friendships, work, school, and community.
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Spiritual care providers: you’re invited to a discussion with justice advocates and social scientists Sarah Jaquette Ray & Joshua Moses.
Anxiety is fraying our social infrastructure: friendships, work, school, and community.
Anxiety is fraying our social infrastructure: friendships, work, school, and community.
"Bad Future, Better Future" is a NYT digital storybook that puts into perspective the reality of our climate changed world as well as a future that could come into being if we muster the spiritual courage.
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Bad Future, Better Future" is a NYT digital storybook that puts into perspective the reality of our climate changed world as well as a future that could come into being if we muster the spiritual courage.
This week, we published the first of four parts of our quarterly Murmurations newsletter for spiritual care providers. Climate Chaplain Gabrielle Gelderman talks to us about how activism has informed her chaplaincy – and more.
If you missed it, you can read it here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...
If you missed it, you can read it here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This week, we published the first of four parts of our quarterly Murmurations newsletter for spiritual care providers. Climate Chaplain Gabrielle Gelderman talks to us about how activism has informed her chaplaincy – and more.
If you missed it, you can read it here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...
If you missed it, you can read it here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...
A vision for the year 2150: children become earth keepers by rite: coming-of-age ceremonies include ecological stewardship training – healing land, water, and community as sacred initiation.
What is the thrive-able climate vision living rent-free in your soul? Or perhaps you don't have one yet...
What is the thrive-able climate vision living rent-free in your soul? Or perhaps you don't have one yet...
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A vision for the year 2150: children become earth keepers by rite: coming-of-age ceremonies include ecological stewardship training – healing land, water, and community as sacred initiation.
What is the thrive-able climate vision living rent-free in your soul? Or perhaps you don't have one yet...
What is the thrive-able climate vision living rent-free in your soul? Or perhaps you don't have one yet...
This week, the 2025-2026 cohort of Navigating Climate Spiritual Care began their 6mo learning journey. Together, they're honing their spiritual capacity + skills to respond to human needs in a climate-changed world.
#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology
#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This week, the 2025-2026 cohort of Navigating Climate Spiritual Care began their 6mo learning journey. Together, they're honing their spiritual capacity + skills to respond to human needs in a climate-changed world.
#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology
#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology
Calling all preachers: Grist, the foremost #climate-focused newsroom in the U.S., is teaming up with The BTS Center and our EcoPreacher partners to bring you a workshop that will hone your craft and renew your spirit.
Space is limited, so register now to hold your spot: bit.ly/visioning-gr...
Space is limited, so register now to hold your spot: bit.ly/visioning-gr...
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Calling all preachers: Grist, the foremost #climate-focused newsroom in the U.S., is teaming up with The BTS Center and our EcoPreacher partners to bring you a workshop that will hone your craft and renew your spirit.
Space is limited, so register now to hold your spot: bit.ly/visioning-gr...
Space is limited, so register now to hold your spot: bit.ly/visioning-gr...
The BTS Center board and staff spent 2.5 days together. We're blessed beyond measure to have the guidance and leadership of such a group of individuals.
This moment calls us to courage and connection.
This moment calls us to courage and connection.
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The BTS Center board and staff spent 2.5 days together. We're blessed beyond measure to have the guidance and leadership of such a group of individuals.
This moment calls us to courage and connection.
This moment calls us to courage and connection.
The BTS Center's board & staff have traveled from across the U.S. to be together this week, deliberating with prayer and thoughtfulness how we can be the best partner we can be to spiritual leaders navigating a climate changed world.
Deeply grateful for this wisdom, commitment, & compassion.
Deeply grateful for this wisdom, commitment, & compassion.
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The BTS Center's board & staff have traveled from across the U.S. to be together this week, deliberating with prayer and thoughtfulness how we can be the best partner we can be to spiritual leaders navigating a climate changed world.
Deeply grateful for this wisdom, commitment, & compassion.
Deeply grateful for this wisdom, commitment, & compassion.
Last night's conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Leah Penniman, accompanied by the music of Reggie Harris, was a tremendous affirmation of life, planet, and connection.
Participants shared gratitude for the ways they encountered the beyond-human world that day –
Participants shared gratitude for the ways they encountered the beyond-human world that day –
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Last night's conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Leah Penniman, accompanied by the music of Reggie Harris, was a tremendous affirmation of life, planet, and connection.
Participants shared gratitude for the ways they encountered the beyond-human world that day –
Participants shared gratitude for the ways they encountered the beyond-human world that day –