Tag: advent

• 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

• Dec. 4 Gathering: RENEW

  

  Can we have peace without first having renewal? And can renewal come without repentance?

  Joe

  November 30, 2022

  Gatherings

  advent, Christmas, community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, renew, repent, story, wineskins

• Nov. 27 Gathering: Guest speaker Dr. Thomas Jay Oord

  

  Join us this Sunday as we welcome Dr. Tom Oord to talk about open and relational theology in the context of community formation to kick off our Advent:Reimagined season!

  Joe

  November 23, 2022

  Gatherings

  advent, community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, love, new wineskins, open and relational theology, process theology, pub church, pub theology, story, thomas jay oord, tom oord, wineskins

• Advent:Reimagined

  

  Rather than looking forward simply to the baby in the manger, we want to think about how we ourselves embody the cosmic Christ that breaks into humanity with the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

  Joe

  November 22, 2022

  Gatherings

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

• (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.

  Joe

  December 14, 2021

  Gatherings

  (r)Advent, advent, community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, Justice, liberation, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, story, wineskins

• (r)Advent Week 3: Joy

  This week at New Wineskins, we’ll continue our celebration of (r)Advent by exploring the theme of Joy, where we find it, and how we can share it through acts of justice and liberation.

  Joe

  December 8, 2021

  Gatherings

  (r)Advent, advent, community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, joy, Justice, liberation, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, story, virtual pub church, virtual theology pub, wineskins