In a time of political, economic, and social upheaval, it can be difficult to know what exactly is ours to do. How do we stand in solidarity with others in love, compassion, and empathy without becoming that which we proclaim to stand against?
For our October New Wineskins gathering, we’ll take a page out of our recent book study on Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and consider how simply being present in each moment and finding our place in the family of Mother Earth is itself an act of resistance against the contemptuousness of consumerism, greed, and empire.
Our discussion video this week comes from the Reflections of Life YouTube channel and features Lakota activist Tiokasin Ghosthorse offering encouragement about how we can go beyond living on the Earth and learn to live more fully with the Earth…and how doing so opens us more and more to one another.
Please join us in the Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom this Sunday, October 5, for a conversation about the importance of finding our presence in a culture that often seems bent on destroying it.
6:00pm ET: Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time)
6:30pm ET: Presentation & conversation begin
Check out this week’s discussion video!
Click here to view this week’s discussion video on YouTube
New Monthly Schedule!
From the earliest days of our community as an every-other-week pub church event, we’ve lived by the axiom that “Everything is always an experiment!” To that end, we recognize that the season for weekly gatherings that began during the global Coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has drawn to an end, and it’s time to try a new experiment by migrating to meeting once a month (at least for the time being!).
Beginning Sunday, Oct. 5, our gatherings will be held on the first Sunday of each month on Zoom (see link above). We will continue to focus on justice-oriented issues through the lens of progressive theology, utilizing media, art, music, and activism as the jumping-off points of our monthly conversations.
Please mark your calendars for the first Sundays of the month and join us in the New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub!
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Feature image: “Tree of Life,” Dolly Sods Wilderness, Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia USA (photo by Joe Webb)
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