Is our celebration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth just a religious observation? Or is it the beginning of a story about overturning the powers and principalities of empire?
Tag Archives: Christmas
Dec. 4 Gathering: RENEW
Can we have peace without first having renewal? And can renewal come without repentance?
Christmas for Spiritual Exiles
This Christmas, we invite you to join not just in the celebration of Christmas, but the challenge.
(r)Advent Week 2: Peace
If peace is possible, how are we ever supposed to get there? Are we too far gone to really bring about the Beloved Community?
Immanuel
This Christmas Eve, we invite you to join us in a special visual liturgy and community love feast in the progressive Wesleyan tradition as we gather virtually to reflect on the incarnation and the holy revelation of the divine within the material.
New Wineskins Advent 2020
Advent is a story. Not just a story that happened but one that still happens. It’s a story of the divine breaking into humanity. It’s a story of how things are and the possibilities of what things can become.
Dec. 22 Gathering: BEER & CAROLS!
We love Christmas carols! We love beer! We love caring for our community! It’s a match made in yuletide heaven!
Dec. 8 Gathering: Advent as a time of welcoming darkness
We often talk about Advent as a season of waiting for the light.But what if, while we were waiting, we learned to welcome the darkness?
Dec. 17 Gathering: Christmas Traditions – Finding Sacredness in the Ordinary
What if we began to recognize the sacredness in our ordinary routines? To find that behind the garland-covered mantles, the overbaked sugar cookies, the elves on assorted shelves, and the inside family jokes was something deeply holy?
Dec. 11 Gathering: Have Yourself A Subversive Little Christmas
How many of us will tell the real story of Christmas this year? Not the one with the pastoral imagery of white-washed Nativities, but the one about the unlikely delivery of a child to an unwed couple in a filthy stable in a backwater town in a two-bit corner of the Roman empire?