Author: Joe

• Feb. 11 Gathering: Experiencing Transfiguration

  

  Can spiritual practices lead us into transfiguration?

  Joe

  February 6, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, divine presence, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, perception, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spiritual exiles, spiritual practices, story, transfiguration, wineskins

• Feb. 4 Gathering: Awakening to Delight

  

  Can we overcome the siren song of self perpetuation? And could the key to awakening lie in the simple act of delight?

  Joe

  January 31, 2024

  Gatherings

  awakening, community, conversation, delight, diversity, divine presence, epiphany, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, perception, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Jan. 28 Gathering: Awakening to God in the Other

  

  What if we learned to see ourselves more as guests than as hosts?

  Joe

  January 24, 2024

  Gatherings

  awakening, community, conversation, divine presence, epiphany, Faith, God, Hobab, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, perception, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Jan. 21 Gathering: Awakening to Divine Presence

  

  Does the way we perceive the divine define the way we relate to the world?

  Joe

  January 17, 2024

  Gatherings

  awakening, community, conversation, divine presence, epiphany, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, perception, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Jan. 14 Gathering: Justice & Salvation

  

  What does justice have to do with salvation?

  Joe

  January 10, 2024

  Gatherings

  awakening, community, conversation, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, epiphany, Faith, jacqui lewis, Jesus, Justice, love, mlk, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Jan. 7 Gathering: Awakening

  

  What has been awakened within us? What awakening remains?

  Joe

  January 3, 2024

  Gatherings

  awakening, community, conversation, epiphany, Faith, jacqui lewis, Jesus, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Advent 4/Christmas: Unitivity

  

  A visual Christmas liturgy for spiritual exiles

  Joe

  December 22, 2023

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, enlightenment, Faith, gratitude, Jesus, love, new wineskins, one, ordinary, particularity, pub church, pub theology, quantum entanglement, richard rohr, spiritual exiles, story, unitivity, wineskins

• Dec. 17 Gathering: The Divine Ordinary

  

  Could the ordinary be the key to locating the divine?

  Joe

  December 12, 2023

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, enlightenment, Faith, gratitude, Jesus, love, loving enemies, new wineskins, ordinary, particularity, pub church, pub theology, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Dec. 10 Gathering: The Scandal of the Incarnation

  

  What if we understood the Christ to be what Jesus of Nazareth was pointing us all toward by embodying it fully?

  Joe

  December 5, 2023

  Gatherings

  advent, community, conversation, enlightenment, Faith, gratitude, incarnation, Jesus, love, loving enemies, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, richard rohr, spiritual exiles, story, universal christ, wineskins

• Dec. 3 Gathering: Welcoming Wisdom

  

  What role does wisdom play in transformation?

  Joe

  November 28, 2023

  Gatherings

  advent, community, conversation, enlightenment, Faith, gratitude, Jesus, love, loving enemies, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, richard rohr, spiritual exiles, story, universal christ, wineskins, wisdom