Category: Gatherings
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Feb. 27 Gathering: Transfiguration for Spiritual Exiles
What if Jesus’ transfiguration is not just a symbol of divinity, but of humanity fulfilled?
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Feb. 20 Gathering: How we experience Divine Presence in online communities
Is there something inherently different about groups that meet online vs. those that gather in person? Does everyone have to be in the same place at the same time, or can engaging with and discussing content asynchronously create its own kind of community?
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Feb. 13 Gathering: Trivia Night for Spiritual Exiles!
This week we’ll gather at 5:00pm EST for a fun night of funky trivia!
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Feb 6 Gathering: Discipleship as resistance
Does Jesus invite his disciples not just to an alternative spiritual lifestyle, but an act of resistance against the exploitative social and economic systems of empire?
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Jan. 30 Gathering: Living on the cliffs of Nazareth
What happens when whole communities organize around Jesus’ prophetic call for justice and liberation rather than consumeristic comfort and institutional preservation?
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Jan. 23 Gathering: A prophetic moment
If the church is meant to be the body of Christ, why has it become so complicit with systems that exploit and objectify? Are we missing a prophetic moment?
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Jan. 16 Gathering: Water, Wine, and the Beloved Community
Thus, turning water into fine wine is not just a magic trick meant to impress a bunch of wedding guests. It’s a way of showing what life can be like when the fullness of Divine Love is expressed in human relationships.
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Jan. 9 Gathering: An Epiphany for Spiritual Exiles
Is the primary reason to follow Jesus his ability to perform miracles? Or is there something more? Are there “greater things than these” we should be paying attention to?
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Christmas for Spiritual Exiles
This Christmas, we invite you to join not just in the celebration of Christmas, but the challenge.
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(r)Advent Week 4: Love
This week at New Wineskins, we’ll end our (r)Advent journey with a discussion of how Love extended to those most oppressed and marginalized by our societal systems and structures is the heartbeat of reality and the key not only to their liberation, but our own.