Tag: advent

• Dec. 14 Gathering: Embracing the Dark (Advent 2025)

  

  Embracing the darkness of the Advent season

  Joe

  December 9, 2025

  Gatherings

  advent, Christmas, community, contemplation, conversation, darkness, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, nature, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, seasons, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins, winter

• Dec. 22 Gathering: Healing & Wholeness

  

  Can a renewed spirit of hospitality bring healing and wholeness to our communities?

  Joe

  December 18, 2024

  Gatherings

  advent, community, contemplation, conversation, Faith, God, hope, hospitality, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Dec. 15 Gathering: “Spaces of Grace”

  

  Can we learn from each other’s differences and hold the tension between unconditional love and the expectancy of hope?

  Joe

  December 11, 2024

  Gatherings

  advent, community, contemplation, conversation, Faith, God, hope, hospitality, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Dec. 8 Gathering: “Habits of Hope”

  

  Can we hold the tension between the hard realities of the world and the possibilities for hope?

  Joe

  December 4, 2024

  Gatherings

  advent, community, contemplation, conversation, Faith, God, hope, hospitality, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Advent For Spiritual Exiles: Incarnating Wholeness

  

  Advent invites us into new ways to incarnate the wholeness of our spirituality and our humanity together.

  Joe

  November 27, 2024

  Gatherings

  advent, community, contemplation, conversation, Faith, God, hope, hospitality, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Dec. 10 Gathering: The Scandal of the Incarnation

  

  What if we understood the Christ to be what Jesus of Nazareth was pointing us all toward by embodying it fully?

  Joe

  December 5, 2023

  Gatherings

  advent, community, conversation, enlightenment, Faith, gratitude, incarnation, Jesus, love, loving enemies, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, richard rohr, spiritual exiles, story, universal christ, wineskins

• Dec. 3 Gathering: Welcoming Wisdom

  

  What role does wisdom play in transformation?

  Joe

  November 28, 2023

  Gatherings

  advent, community, conversation, enlightenment, Faith, gratitude, Jesus, love, loving enemies, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, richard rohr, spiritual exiles, story, universal christ, wineskins, wisdom

• Awaiting the Universal Christ

  

  How do we view the incarnation through the lens of the Universal Christ?

  Joe

  November 27, 2023

  Gatherings

  advent, community, conversation, enlightenment, Faith, gratitude, Jesus, love, loving enemies, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, spiritual exiles, story, universal christ, wineskins

• Dec. 18 Gathering: Love

  

  This week at New Wineskins we’ll celebrate the fourth Sunday of Advent:Reimagined by exploring the theme of Love, and how the way we love creates stories of divine encounter that change people’s lives.

  Joe

  December 14, 2022

  Gatherings

  advent, community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, love, narrative, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, story, wineskins

• Dec. 11 Gathering: Liberate

  

  What does liberation mean to you?

  Joe

  December 7, 2022

  Gatherings

  advent, community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, liberation, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, story, wineskins