Category: Faith
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Aug. 18 Gathering: “The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like…”
What is Jesus getting at in his parables about the kingdom of heaven? Who was he talking to and why? What does he even mean by “the kingdom of heaven?”
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Aug. 4 Gathering: The Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds (with guest host Kevin Malcomb!)
But as with all parables, there is a deeper story behind the story. And this week, our own Kevin Malcomb will lead our discussion into the layers below the surface!
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July 21 Gathering: The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
As usual, Jesus is painting on a larger canvas. His teachings are far more rarely about individual morality than they are about society and culture. The whole rather than the one.
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July 7 Gathering: The Prodigal
The story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 is one of the most beloved stories in Christendom. In it we often find ourselves as the wayward offspring, accepted & forgiven by the doting parent while the petulant older sibling sulks in discontent. But what if there’s another way to read the story? What if…
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June 2 Gathering: Active Nonviolence (or “War: What is it Good For?)
Despite our best efforts to strive for peace, we eventually resort to violence as a means to either get our way or defend ourselves.
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Mark your calendars for June, July gatherings!
Hello, friends of New Wineskins! We have made some adjustments to our schedule to accommodate the upcoming Memorial Day weekend and another scheduling conflict in June. Here are the dates for June and July: – Sunday, June 2– Sunday, June 23– Sunday, July 7– Sunday, July 21 Please mark your calendars accordingly, and we hope…
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May 12 Gathering: Celebrating Mary
We know Mary mostly through the Christmas story…but there is much, much more to Mary’s story, and what she has to teach us.
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April 28 Gathering: Resurrection
What if resurrection is really not a miracle at all? What if resurrection was the most natural thing we could possibly believe in? What if it’s the most natural thing we could experience?
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April 14 Gathering: Holy Week (and free food!)
For centuries, communities of people who follow the ways of Jesus have marked the days of Holy Week in special ways.
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March 31 Gathering: Deconstruction
We often find that the pat answers we were given in childhood no longer make sense in the world in which we find ourselves. The simple faith with which many of us were raised might seem too simple or, even downright ridiculous.