Category: Faith
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May 20 Gathering: Pentecost
Pentecost is often celebrated as the “birthday of the church,” and is a major touchstone in trinitarian theology. But what do we know of the deeper Jewish history of Pentecost, its meanings prior to Christianity, and how those things translate into our faith traditions today?
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May 6 Gathering: A New Wineskins Free-for-All!
Got questions about faith, the Bible, church, etc. that you just can’t seem to find answers for? This Sunday’s New Wineskins is your chance!
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April 22 Gathering: Cassie Kile and the Nerd Gospel!
If we take a step back and look at the fantasy stories that make up our era, we see a mosaic of the Gospel.
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April 8 Gathering: Myth, Legend, and Scripture
But what if the people who first compiled these stories into the scriptural canon were less concerned with historical fact than with relating more nuanced levels of meaning? What if stories like the Exodus, Jonah, and Ruth are really more legend than memoir?
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March 25 Gathering: Palm Sunday–Celebration or Subversion?
So what if we’re missing the point of Palm Sunday. What if it’s less celebration and more subversion? Not so much a shindig as a scandal?
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March 11 Gathering: Faith or Fear?
Often, it seems our faith is motivated more by fear than by love. Fear of death, fear of the other, fear of the unknown. Fear of punishment. Fear of hell.
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Feb. 25 Gathering CANCELLED
New Wineskins is CANCELLED this week. Our apologies for any inconvenience.
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Feb. 11 Gathering: Vulnerability
What if vulnerability is actually at the heart of what it means to be fully human? What if, without vulnerability, we are missing out on something that is at the core of our true essence?
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Jan. 28 Gathering: What’s Our Story?
As it happens, stories have immense power. And what we do with the power of our own stories in many ways defines who it is that we actually are.