Tag: Faith
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Oct. 17 Gathering: Why embodiment matters
Are we simply souls existing inside of bodies? Is our identity thoroughly spiritual without concern for the blood, bones, and flesh from which we’re made? Can we trust what our bodies tell us?
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Oct. 10 Gathering: Changing the Conversation
Do our religious institutions purposely ignore biblical mandates to care for those on the margins of society? How do we change the conversation?
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Oct. 3 Gathering: A Dissident Eucharist for Spiritual Exiles
What if we could see the sacraments not just as rites we participate in as individuals for our own private spiritual experiences, but as subversive acts that emancipate whole communities and liberate those who exist on the margins of public policy and institutions?
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Sept. 26 Gathering: Mutual Aid with Guest Speaker Wendy Hudson
If Mutual Aid is among the first biblical models of Christian community, why don’t we hear more about it? And why don’t more faith communities employ it as a means of resource sharing?
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Sept. 12 Gathering: Kenosis — how do we empty ourselves?
How do we empty ourselves not as individuals, but as communities working together for the common good?
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Sept. 5 Gathering: Finding Sacred Rest within Community
This week at New Wineskins, Chris Wylie will lead us in a Labor Day Weekend conversation about how finding rest within the liturgical dialogical rhythms of our community restores us to be people who work for justice and equity in the world around us.
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Aug. 15 Gathering: What Will the Church Become?
It’s plain that something is changing within the big-C Church. The question is, where are we going?
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Aug. 8 Gathering: Living in the tension
Maybe learning to living within tension rather than trying to resolve it is a path to enlightenment.
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July 11 Gathering: Holy Mischief
This week at New Wineskins, we’ll engage with a video from The Work of the People featuring Sr. Simone Campbell of the Nuns on the Bus movement about how our hyper-individualistic society has blinded us to reality and how a sense of holy mischief can awaken us to who and what God is and how…