Tag: divine encounter

• Aug. 11 Gathering: Faith & Politics (Week 2)

  

  Do systems built on scarcity turn patriotism into mere protection of the status quo?

  Joe

  August 7, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, divine encounter, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, patriotism, politics, pub church, pub theology, reality, scarcity, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, struggle, Suffering, the work of the people, wineskins

• Aug. 4 Gathering: Faith & Politics (Week 1)

  

  What does it look like to engage our faith with politics in a way that is fruitful rather than just nationalistic or performative?

  Joe

  July 31, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cultural christianity, divine encounter, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, struggle, Suffering, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins

• We’re taking a short break…

  

  New Wineskins is on summer hiatus until Aug. 4

  Joe

  July 1, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cultural christianity, divine encounter, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, struggle, Suffering, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins

• June 30 Gathering: Encountering the Divine In the Struggle

  

  What can we learn about Divine Love from the suffering of exploited people and communities?

  Joe

  June 26, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cultural christianity, divine encounter, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, struggle, Suffering, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins

• Feb. 20 Gathering: How we experience Divine Presence in online communities

  Is there something inherently different about groups that meet online vs. those that gather in person? Does everyone have to be in the same place at the same time, or can engaging with and discussing content asynchronously create its own kind of community?

  Joe

  February 16, 2022

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, divine encounter, divine experience, Faith, Jesus, new wineskins, online community, pub church, pub theology, story, virtual community, 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

• Feb. 24 Gathering: “Thin Places”

  Many of us have had experiences of what we might call thin places. A particular place where you sense an enhanced awareness of divine presence.

  Joe

  February 21, 2020

  Faith

  Celtic, celtic spirituality, divine encounter, holy places, thin places