Across the Northern Hemisphere, leaves are changing color and falling to the ground, temperatures are beginning to cool, and daylight hours are dwindling. The earth’s familiar pattern of slowing down and baring its bones tells us that winter is fast approaching.
Of course we know that what we are witnessing is not the death of things as it may appear, but simply an annual reset. So what can we learn from it all?
This week at New Wineskins, we’ll discuss the ways that nature’s cycles set a tone for our own human lives as we ourselves prepare for the change of seasons from the color and vibrancy of summer and fall to the doldrums of winter…and how what seems like death and decay is actually always a preparation for new life.
Our discussion video this week features Fr. Richard Rohr pondering how death is merely a pathway to changing form in both the natural world human existence.
Please join us in the Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom this Sunday, Nov. 2, for a conversation about how we can enter winter with an eye to the life that comes with spring.
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
Don’t be late…change your clocks!
Just a reminder that this Sunday marks the end of Daylight Saving Time and our return to Standard Time. Be sure to set you clocks back an hour so you’re on time for this week’s gathering!
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!).
Our gatherings are now being 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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