The Maine Monitor highlighted the work of The BTS Center in an article exploring how chaplains support people experiencing climate anxiety.| The BTS Center
The Board and staff of The BTS Center are thrilled to welcome Ophelia Hu Kinney to the staff team in the new role of Strategic Communications Director.| The BTS Center
The BTS Center announces that four extraordinary leaders have been elected to serve on our Board of Trustees, and the Board has recently elected a new slate of officers.| The BTS Center
Lexington Theological Seminary, The BTS Center, and Creation Justice Ministries are partnering to offer a series of experiences and resources to help you hone the craft of preaching in the context of a changing world and a changing church. We seek to equip and encourage preaching that is rooted deeply in Scripture and theology — preaching that gets at the heart of what it means to be human and to live faithfully in a climate-changed world.| The BTS Center
EcoPreacher Cohort| The BTS Center
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Marking the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, The BTS Center joins national leaders across the health, faith, and civic sectors in issuing a clear, urgent call for climate resilience and justice.| The BTS Center
Earth Day sermon delivered by Sue Inches to First Parish Yarmouth, April 21, 2024. May we be inspired by those who are leading us towards environmental justice for all.| The BTS Center
On behalf of our Board of Trustees and our dedicated staff team, we’re pleased to share with you our 2025 Report to the Community, filled from cover to cover with stories and images that capture a year of spiritual exploration, a year of growth in leadership and wisdom, a year of courageous and contemplative community, a year of grateful and joyful engagement. When you have a little time, we hope you’ll pull up a chair, or maybe find your way to a comfortable spot beside a body of water o...| The BTS Center
When we see someone responding to their vocational call, we might assume, “They can do it because they have (insert degree, training, or other unrealistic assumption of perfection).” We often choose to believe “I’m not enough” rather than to forge into the unknown.| The BTS Center
"The work of The BTS Center is part of a much broader evolution within Christianity. I believe the “butterfly” Christianity is becoming will fully embrace the path of Jesus while letting go of the idea that it is the only valid faith tradition on the planet."| The BTS Center
The common good is a posture, a perspective, and a range of practices that occur when we decenter ourselves as individuals in favor of taking our rightful place in the sacred web of life. This web includes you and me.| The BTS Center
Most recently, Rev. Lessard has participated in the Climate Conscious Conversation Circles with The BTS Center. Of her experience in the Circles, she says: “I can't tell you how valuable that was for me because this is such a unique and odd path that I didn't expect. Being able to sit and work with others involved in similar work, learning about this, and evolving into this new form of chaplaincy was hugely impactful.”| The BTS Center
EcoPreacher Cohort| The BTS Center