Deconstructing Holy Week

The final week of Jesus’ life is a whirlwind. The street theatre of Palm Sunday quickly gives way to parallel story lines: The emboldened conspiracy against him gains steam among the imperial and religious elite even as Jesus engages his followers in some of his most intimate teaching yet.

The stories of this week—Mary’s anointing, Judas’ betrayal, Jesus’ washing of his disciples’ feet, and their last meal together—lead us to the climax of the narrative: crucifixion and resurrection.

Post-Constantinian Western Christianity has tended to look upon these acts as symbolic for our beliefs about Jesus conquering individual sin and death. But what if we looked at them through a different lens?

What if the sin and death Jesus overcomes is less about our own independent indiscretions than with our public and systemic tendencies to exploit, oppress, and marginalize those who dare stand against the status quo?

Join us this week as our Lenten collaboration with Justice & Jubilee wraps up with celebrations of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. On Maundy Thursday (April 6) and Good Friday (April 7), we’ll release visual liturgies from The Work of the People for you to view and reflect upon (we encourage you to engage in conversation in our Wineskins Workshops Facebook group).

On Easter Sunday morning, you’re invited to join us in our New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom at 8:00am EDT for a Sunrise Service where together we’ll watch a sermon from Justice & Jubilee founder Rev. Jenny Williams and hold a brief conversation afterward (we’ll open our Zoom connection at 7:50am and plan to wrap up by around 8:30am).

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Holy Week, Easter Sunday, and beyond:

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Feature image: Intricately carved and painted frieze inside Notre Dame Cathedral depicting Jesus Washing The Feet Of St. Peter, Palm Sunday, UNESCO World Heritage Site in Paris, France (photo via pond5.com)

April 2 Gathering: Palm Sunday

It was not what anyone suspected. The crowd, many of whom had never seen him and only knew him by reputation, gathered on the road between the Mount of Olives and the city gates of Jerusalem.

What were they expecting? A king? A conquerer? One to rally them against their occupiers and oppressors?

Let’s face it. On that first Palm Sunday, it’s a good bet that many—if not most—were expecting a war to begin.

Instead, they got Jesus riding into town on the back of a borrowed beast of burden. Symbolic, perhaps, of his solidarity with those on whose labors empire and its cronies capitalize.

This week at New Wineskins, we continue our Lenten collaboration with Justice & Jubilee by taking a fresh look at the familiar story of Palm Sunday from Matt. 21:1-11 and considering what it means to view the text through the lens of justice and liberation.

Join us this Sunday, April 2, in the New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom for a discussion about the ways our work for liberation defies our expectations…even (or maybe especially) our religious ones. Our discussion video from The Work of the People invites us to see ourselves in the crowd shouting, “Hosannah!” … and to consider what we really mean by it.

📺 Click here to watch this week’s video

For the full experience of our collaboration, see the schedule below…you’re welcome to participate in any or all of the following:

5:30pm ET: Justice & Jubilee Message & Music (YouTube livestream)
6:00pm ET: New Wineskins Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time…link below)
6:30pm ET: New Wineskins Presentation & conversation begin (link below)

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Join us for Holy Week with Justice & Jubilee!

Our Lenten collaboration with Justice and Jubilee wraps up next week with our celebrations of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. On Maundy Thursday (April 6) and Good Friday (April 7), we’ll release visual liturgies from The Work of the People for you to view and reflect upon (we encourage you to engage in conversation in our Wineskins Workshops Facebook group).

On Easter Sunday, you’re invited to join us in our New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom at 8:00am EDT for a Sunrise Service where together we’ll watch a sermon from Justice & Jubilee founder Rev. Jenny Williams and hold a brief conversation afterward. We’ll open our Zoom connection at 7:50am and plan to wrap up by around 8:30am.

Holy Week, Easter Sunday, and beyond:

Join us for our first-ever New Wineskins book study!

Starting Sunday, April 23, we’ll be reading Josh Scott’s new book, Bible Stories for Grownups: Reading Scripture with New Eyes, together as a community. Order your copy now and be ready to engage a remarkably insightful, contextual view of some of the Bible’s best-known stories.

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March 26 Gathering: Raised

A valley of dry bones brought to life.

Lazarus drawn from his tomb, eyes unwrapped.

A breath, a tear, a word. Life renewed.

The texts for the 5th Sunday in Lent present us with some pretty stark imagery as we draw nearer to Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Visions of Israel’s restoration and Jesus’ love beyond his friend’s grave give us much to ponder.

We’re tempted, with good reason, to draw comparisons between Ezekiel 37:1-14 and John 11:1-45 as blueprints to our own hopes for resurrection…to cling to them as hope for life after our own deaths.

But what if something much more meaningful and profound is behind these passages? What if they’re meant more to give us a promise for today than hope for tomorrow? What if they’re pointing us toward a way of speaking truth to power that can overcome the worst of what oppression and exploitation have to dish out?

This week at New Wineskins, we continue our Lenten collaboration with Justice & Jubilee with a discussion on how deconstructing these two familiar passages can give us a lens into our prophetic call to dismantle the systems and structures of privilege and influence that keep us all from living a life of Divine intent.

Join us this Sunday, March 26, in the New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom as we take a closer look at how the stories of Ezekiel and Lazarus speak truth to power in order to liberate the people our society too often tells us to ignore. Our discussion video from The Work of the People invites us to consider the ways we fail to see the death and destruction wrought by power dynamics and our role in overcoming those principalities to bring about the Beloved Community.

📺 Click here to watch this week’s video

For the full experience of our collaboration, see the schedule below…you’re welcome to participate in any or all of the following:

5:30pm ET: Justice & Jubilee Message & Music (YouTube livestream)
6:00pm ET: New Wineskins Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time…see link below)
6:30pm ET: New Wineskins Presentation & conversation begin (see link below)

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Join us for Lent with Justice & Jubilee!

Every week during Lent, Justice and Jubilee will host their regular YouTube live premier at 5:30pm (Eastern Time) and invite participants to join us in our New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom for Happy Half-Hour from 6:00-6:30pmET for a time of conversation and community.

We’ll then hold our regular 6:30pmET discussion focused on how we might look at the J&J topic through the lens of deconstruction, seeking to find deeper, perhaps unexpected meanings that inform our collective justice & liberation work.

Stay tuned for details about our Holy Week and Easter Sunday observations:

  • Apr. 2: Palm Sunday
  • Apr. 6: Maundy Thursday
  • Apr. 7: Good Friday
  • Apr. 9: Easter Sunday

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March 19 Gathering: Anointed

The most unlikely son of a farmer chosen to be king. A man born blind healed by spit and mud.

The texts for the fourth Sunday in Advent draw our attention to the elevation of the ordinary to the sacred. The shepherd boy David chosen by the prophet Samuel to become king of Israel in 1 Samuel 16:1-13. Jesus healing a blind man at the pool of Siloam in John 9:1-41.

These passages also reveal the conflict inherent when people considered to be unworthy are suddenly revealed to be extraordinary through an encounter with the Divine. Those who benefit from power and inequality are greatly disturbed when their systems and structures are laid bare by the Divine gaze and found to be lacking in humanity and humility.

So what does it mean to be anointed? And what do these stories teach us about the struggle for justice and liberation?

What if every human being is anointed, Messiahed, Christ? What if the most fundamental aspect of our identity is that we are each anointed and appointed by The Holy One, by Spirit—to preach good news to the poor, liberty to the captive, and sight to the blind? What if we take seriously being the Body of the Christ—that we are the hands, feet, and heartbeat of the Living God? What if we are Word made flesh, Love made flesh, Light made flesh? 

Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Center for Action and Contemplation

This week at New Wineskins, we continue our Lenten collaboration with Justice & Jubilee with a conversation about anointing as a sacred means of grace that reveals the sacredness that is already present everywhere, and how exposing that sacredness empowers us to rise up against the systems and structures that only hold power through the oppression. of others.

Join us this Sunday, March 19, in the New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom as we unpack the biblical concept anointing as a metaphor for the revelation of the Cosmic Christ in all that is. Our discussion video from The Work of the People invites us to find the sacredness that exists everywhere…even within our own pain.

📺 Click here to watch this week’s video

For the full experience of our collaboration, see the schedule below…you’re welcome to participate in any or all of the following:

5:30pm ET: Justice & Jubilee Message & Music (YouTube livestream)
6:00pm ET: New Wineskins Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time…see link below)
6:30pm ET: New Wineskins Presentation & conversation begin (see link below)

New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom

Join us for Lent with Justice & Jubilee!

Every week during Lent, Justice and Jubilee will host their regular YouTube live premier at 5:30pm (Eastern Time) and invite participants to join us in our New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom for Happy Half-Hour from 6:00-6:30pmET for a time of conversation and community.

We’ll then hold our regular 6:30pmET discussion focused on how we might look at the J&J topic through the lens of deconstruction, seeking to find deeper, perhaps unexpected meanings that inform our collective justice & liberation work.

If you haven’t already signed up for our weekly email newsletter, now would be a great time to do it so you don’t miss any of this cool collaboration!

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March 12 Gathering: Quenched

In this week’s Revised Common Lectionary text for the third Sunday in Lent, Jesus encounters a woman at a well in Samaria, a former territory of the defunct Northern Kingdom of Israel and now part of the disputed Palestinian West Bank.

The gist of the story is that Jesus asks the woman for water, then proclaims to her that he can give her ”living water” and more or less declares to her that he is Israel’s long-awaited Messiah.

John 4:5-42 is a long passage with several plot twists: Jesus breaking Jewish social codes by speaking to a) a woman who is b) a Samaritan, his declaration to the woman about her history with men, the differences between Jewish and Samaritan religious practices, the woman’s return from the well to the nearby city to rally the locals, and Jesus’ conversation with his disciples about sowing and harvesting.

Sadly, this passage is often used by Evangelicals to try to ”prove” Jesus’ messiahship and to double down on patriarchal tropes.

But what if the real point isn’t about any of that?

What if the real point is about the water?

This week at New Wineskins, we continue our Lenten collaboration with Justice & Jubilee by stripping away the many distractions presented in this popular story and focusing on what it means for Jesus to ask for water, and for him to offer water of a different kind.

Join us this Sunday, March 12, as we take a deep dive into Jesus’ use of water as a metaphor for liberation. Our discussion video from The Work of the People prompts us to consider the futility of seeking individual salvation without working for the liberation of all.

📺 Click here to watch this week’s video

For the full experience of our collaboration, see the schedule below…you’re welcome to participate in any or all of the following:

5:30pm ET: Justice & Jubilee Message & Music (YouTube livestream)
6:00pm ET: New Wineskins Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time…see link below)
6:30pm ET: New Wineskins Presentation & conversation begin (see link below)

New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom

Join us for Lent with Justice & Jubilee!

Every week during Lent, Justice and Jubilee will host their regular YouTube live premier at 5:30pm (Eastern Time) and invite participants to join us in our New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom for Happy Half-Hour from 6:00-6:30pmET for a time of conversation and community.

We’ll then hold our regular 6:30pmET discussion focused on how we might look at the J&J topic through the lens of deconstruction, seeking to find deeper, perhaps unexpected meanings that inform our collective justice & liberation work.

If you haven’t already signed up for our weekly email newsletter, now would be a great time to do it so you don’t miss any of this cool collaboration!

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Feature image: Jacob’s Well, West Bank, Palestine, 2019 (Image by Joe Webb. All rights reserved)

March 5 Gathering: Called

In Chapter 3 of the Gospel of John, the writer recounts an encounter between Jesus and a man named Nicodemus, a member of the Pharisee sect, who in many ways saw themselves as the self-appointed gatekeepers of Israel’s religious life in first century Palestine.

During their conversation, Jesus says something Nicodemus finds terribly confusing: “I assure you, unless someone is born anew, it’s not possible to see God’s kingdom.” (John 3:3, CEB).

Jesus goes on to explain what he means: if you really want to see what God’s up to in the world, being born is not enough…you have to be reborn “in the Spirit.” A little bit later, he utters former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow’s favorite verse: ”God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life” (John 3:16, CEB).

Evangelicals for decades have used these verses to argue that belief in Jesus is necessary for people to go to heaven when they die. But what if Jesus had something else in mind entirely? What if this passage is not meant as a roadmap to a blissful afterlife, but a better way of living and being in this world, here and now?

What if Jesus isn’t calling for a renewal of personal piousness, but an awakening from the systems and structures of the world that exploit and oppress our fellow residents of the planet? What if he’s really telling Nicodemus that if he genuinely wants to know God’s desires for the world, he must first reject all the default settings we’ve inherited that allow us to marginalize our neighbors in the pursuit of our own glorification?

This week at New Wineskins, our Lenten collaboration with Justice & Jubilee continues as we deconstruct what might be one of the best-known and least understood statements in all of scripture and examine how the real call of Jesus is to awaken from our privilege, our protectionist rhetoric, and our religious certainty to see clearly how our institutions and unwritten societal rules harm not only our fellow humans, but the entirety of the cosmos.

Join us this Sunday, March 5, for a conversation about the relationship between divine calling and awakening. This week’s discussion video from The Work of the People features author and Evolving Faith co-creator Sarah Bessey talking about her own awakening from her evangelical charismatic roots into a fuller realization that justice and liberation, not individual salvation, is the heart of Jesus’ message.

📺 Click here to watch this week’s video

For the full experience of our collaboration, see the schedule below…you’re welcome to participate in any or all of the following:

5:30pm ET: Justice & Jubilee Message & Music (YouTube livestream)
6:00pm ET: New Wineskins Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time…see link below)
6:30pm ET: New Wineskins Presentation & conversation begin (see link below)

New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom

Join us for Lent with Justice & Jubilee!

Every week during Lent, Justice and Jubilee will host their regular YouTube live premier at 5:30pm (Eastern Time) and invite participants to join us in our New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom for Happy Half-Hour from 6:00-6:30pmET for a time of conversation and community.

We’ll then hold our regular 6:30pmET discussion focused on how we might look at the J&J topic through the lens of deconstruction, seeking to find deeper, perhaps unexpected meanings that inform our collective justice & liberation work.

If you haven’t already signed up for our weekly email newsletter, now would be a great time to do it so you don’t miss any of this cool collaboration!

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Feb. 26 Gathering: Tempted

“Even Jesus faced temptation.”

If you’ve spent much time in churches, you’ve probably heard that statement as the point of the passage in Matt. 4:1-11 about the temptation of Jesus. As if that’s supposed to somehow make us feel better…or inspire us to summon all our willpower so we can overcome our own impulses and desires.

But what if that passage isn’t about us? What if the writer is trying to tell us something more important about not just who Jesus is, but how his agenda has far less to do with personal piety than with how we dismantle the systems and structures of society that exploit and oppress?

This week at New Wineskins we’ll kick off our Lenten collaboration with our friends at Justice & Jubilee by deconstructing the so-called Temptation of Jesus and taking a deeper look at how Jesus calls us not just to resist the small temptations in our own life, but our systemic instincts to simply go along with the way the world works as the path of least resistance (this excellent video featuring Diana Butler Bass gives some interesting insight).

Join us this Sunday, Feb. 26, for a conversation about deconstructing temptation. For the full experience, see the schedule below…you’re welcome to participate in any or all of the following:

5:30pm ET: Justice & Jubilee Message & Music (YouTube livestream)
6:00pm ET: New Wineskins Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time…see link below)
6:30pm ET: New Wineskins Presentation & conversation begin (see link below)

New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom

Join us for Lent with Justice & Jubilee!

Every week during Lent, Justice and Jubilee will host their regular YouTube live premier at 5:30pm (Eastern Time) and invite participants to join us in our New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom for Happy Half-Hour from 6:00-6:30pmET for a time of conversation and community.

We’ll then hold our regular 6:30pmET discussion focused on how we might look at the J&J topic through the lens of deconstruction, seeking to find deeper, perhaps unexpected meanings that inform our collective justice & liberation work.

If you haven’t already signed up for our weekly email newsletter, now would be a great time to do it so you don’t miss any of this cool collaboration!

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Feature image: The temptation of Jesus in the desert, an ancient fresco in Fanefjord church, Denmark. © Stig Alenäs 2021 via pond5.com

Ash Wednesday: Fruitful Darkness

The ashes on the forehead mark the mind
To remind us of the person who we are
As temporary persons
Who leave our imprint
By way of our love for one another

Phuc Luu, “Earthen Vessels” • theworkofthepeople.com

We are excited to partner with our friends at Justice & Jubilee to provide an innovative and intimate way to observe the season of Lent this year.

For this Ash Wednesday, we invite you to view the video “Fruitful Darkness” from The Work of the People. Then, join the conversation in our Wineskins Workshops Facebook Group with your reactions and reflections on what the video says to you (link expires Thursday 2/23/23).

Join us for Lent with Justice & Jubilee!

Every week during Lent, Justice and Jubilee will host their regular YouTube live premier at 5:30pm (Eastern Time) and invite participants to join us in our New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom for Happy Half-Hour from 6:00-6:30pmET for a time of conversation and community.

We’ll then hold our regular 6:30pmET discussion focused on how we might look at the J&J topic through the lens of deconstruction, seeking to find deeper, perhaps unexpected meanings that inform our collective justice & liberation work.

If you haven’t already signed up for our weekly email newsletter, now would be a great time to do it so you don’t miss any of this cool collaboration!

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Feb. 19 Gathering: Leaving the Mountaintop

Deconstructing Transfiguration

Each of the three Synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) describes a scene where Jesus takes the disciples Peter, James, and John up on a mountaintop where they experience a mystical event—Jesus’ metamorphosis into a spiritual being, accompanied by the spiritual presence of the Hebrew prophets Moses and Elijah.

As the story goes, Peter—always the most impetuous of Jesus’ followers—immediately wants to construct a worship facility (in Hebrew parlance, it was three “tents” or tabernacles…one each for Jesus, Moses, and Elijah) in order to dwell in what was almost certainly a euphoric moment.

While we don’t get much in the way of details from the gospel writers, the experience seems to have lasted only a short time. As soon as it ends, Jesus hurries his followers back down the mountain, telling them to keep quiet about what they’ve just experienced. There they encounter a young boy experiencing seizures, and Jesus heals him.

Which might prompt us to wonder why Peter wanted to prolong the experience in the first place and why Jesus not only moves on quickly, but doesn’t want his friends to talk about it.

Which raises a couple of important questions: What if the decline in church participation today is at least partly rooted in an over-emphasis on worship? And how do we mark our own encounters with and experience of the divine not by dwelling in them, but by moving away from them?

This week at New Wineskins, we’ll observe Transfiguration Sunday through the lens of deconstruction by considering the importance of leaving the mountaintop and finding where people are most in need in the proverbial valley.

Our discussion video from The Work of the People features pastor and community organizer Aaron Edwards unpacking what the transfiguration story may have to teach us about the nature of worship and the church.

Please join us this Sunday, Feb. 19, in the New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom for a “Deconstructing Liturgy” look at the Transfiguration and how the real work of transformation—in fact, perhaps, the real presence of the divine—shows up once we leave the mountaintop.

Click here to view this week’s discussion video “Transfigured” with Aaron Edwards

6:00pm EDT: Happy Half-Hour (informal meet & greet time)
6:30pm EDT: Presentation & conversation begin

New Wineskins Virtual Theology Pub Powered by Zoom

Join us for Lent with Justice & Jubilee!

We’re excited to be conspiring again with our friends at Justice & Jubilee for the upcoming season of Lent!

Every week during Lent, Justice and Jubilee will host their regular YouTube live premier at 5:30pm (Eastern Time) and invite participants to join us for Happy Half-Hour from 6:00-6:30pmET for a time of conversation and community.

We’ll then hold our regular 6:30pmET discussion focused on how we might look at the J&J topic through the lens of deconstruction, seeking to find deeper, perhaps unexpected meanings that inform our collective justice & liberation work.

Stay tuned for a special post next week outlining the schedule for our Lenten gatherings! If you haven’t already signed up for our weekly email newsletter, now would be a great time to do it so you don’t miss any of this cool collaboration!

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Feb. 12 Gathering: Tailgating for Rolling Nation!

Since this week is Super Bowl Sunday, we didn’t want to make folks have to choose between attending New Wineskins or watching the Big Game. So we’re having our first-ever Online Tailgate Recipe Party to raise funds for our friends at Rolling Nation!

Here’s how it works: submit your favorite tailgating recipe (preferably along with a photo) to our Facebook or Instagram page or drop it in the comments of this post between now and midnight Saturday, Feb. 11. For each recipe you submit, we ask that you make a minimum $5 contribution to Rolling Nation’s grant fund for helping people obtain accessibility upgrades for their vehicles.

Of course, you can donate as much or as little as you like…but every $5 gives you the option to submit another recipe (i.e., 2 for $10, 5 for $25, etc.).

CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION TO ROLLING NATION

Then join us this Sunday, Feb. 12, from 5:30-6:30pm EST (note the time change!) in our Virtual Theology Pub powered by Zoom to hang out at our virtual tailgate party featuring our friend and Rolling Nation founder Chris Wylie (a.k.a. DJ Pastor Rock) with a couple of his favorite recordings and an update on what’s been happening at Rolling Nation.

Join the Virtual Tailgate Party!

Zoom Connection open from 5:30-6:30pm EST
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023