Category: Gatherings

• Aug. 1 Gathering: Open Forum

  It’s been awhile since we’ve had an open forum night at New Wineskins, so this Sunday is your chance to bring whatever thoughts, ideas, etc. are rattling around in your cranium!

  Joe

  July 27, 2021

  Gatherings

• July 25: Community Sabbath

  This Sunday our New Wineskins community will observe our quarterly sabbath. Enjoy your weekend with friends and family and make plans to join us for our next gathering via Zoom on Sunday, Aug. 1.

  Joe

  July 21, 2021

  Gatherings

  no gathering, sabbath

• July 18: Community Picnic!

  We’re having a picnic!

  Joe

  July 12, 2021

  Gatherings

  communion, community, conversation, Faith, Justice, love, new wineskins, online community, picnic, pub church, pub theology, story, wineskins

• July 11 Gathering: Holy Mischief

  This week at New Wineskins, we’ll engage with a video from The Work of the People featuring Sr. Simone Campbell of the Nuns on the Bus movement about how our hyper-individualistic society has blinded us to reality and how a sense of holy mischief can awaken us to who and what God is and how…

  Joe

  July 8, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, good trouble, holy mischief, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, nuns on the bus, pub church, pub theology, story, wineskins

• July 4 Gathering: De-colonizing Christianity

  This week at New Wineskins we’ll have a frank Independence Day discussion about decolonizing Christianity and the part we as individuals and communities have to play in it.

  Joe

  June 30, 2021

  Gatherings

  Christianity, colonization, community, conversation, history, Jesus, july 4, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, story, virtual pub church, white nationalism, wineskins

• June 27 Gathering: Objectifying God

  How do we objectify God? Join the conversation this Sunday! Also, Pride in the Park & Our Reconciling Ministries poll!

  Joe

  June 23, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, golden calf, idolatry, Jesus, misrepresenting God, moses, new wineskins, objectification, pub church, pub theology, self, spiritual exiles, virtual pub, virtual pub church, wineskins

• Reconciling Minstries Network Poll

  You are invited to participate in a poll to help New Wineskins discern whether to affiliate with Reconciling Ministries Network.

  Joe

  June 22, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, new wineskins, poll, pub church, reconciling, reconciling ministries network, rmn

• June 20 Gathering: Helen Ryde of Reconciling Ministries Network

  We are very excited to have Helen Ryde (they/them), organizer with the Reconciling Ministries Network, as our guest for this week‘s gathering!

  Joe

  June 15, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, Faith, movwineskins, new wineskins, online community, pride, pride month, pub church, pub theology, reconciling ministries network, rmn, virtual community, virtual pub, virtual pub church, wineskins

• June 13 Gathering: The Embodied Imago Dei

  If what we call “God” is a trinity of three “persons,” and if we believe we are bearers of the imago dei (image of God), are we also trinitarian beings?

  Joe

  June 9, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, divine encounter, movwineskins, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, relationships, theology, trinitarian, trinity, virtual pub, virtual pub church

• June 6 Gathering: Amy Jo Hutchinson on the For the People Act

  This week at New Wineskins we‘re very excited to welcome Wheeling, WV resident, activist, and organizer Amy Jo Hutchinson as our guest speaker! Amy Jo is working with Faithful Democracy to organize and mobilize faith communities in West Virginia and beyond to support the For The People Act, the sweeping voter rights and election reform…

  Joe

  June 2, 2021

  Gatherings

  advocacy, Amy Jo, Amy Jo Hutchinson, election reform, faith and politics, For The People Act, Justice, movwineskins, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, virtual pub, virtual pub church, voting rights