Tag: identity

• July 6 Gathering: Braiding Sweetgrass Sections 1 & 2

  

  How do our creation stories inform our relationships with the earth and its inhabitants?

  Joe

  July 2, 2025

  Gatherings

  book study, braiding sweetgrass, community, conversation, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• June 1: Braiding Sweetgrass Book Study Begins

  

  Join us the first Sunday of every month this summer for our Braiding Sweetgrass book study!

  Joe

  May 27, 2025

  Gatherings

  book study, braiding sweetgrass, community, conversation, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• May 25 Gathering: Nothing Dies

  

  What if Jesus came not to show us how to be more spiritual, but how to be more human?

  Joe

  May 21, 2025

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, Easter, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, resurrection, richard rohr, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• May 18 Gathering: Body & Blood (and Whisky)

  

  What is the thing beyond the thing toward which resurrection is pointing us?

  Joe

  May 14, 2025

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, Easter, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, resurrection, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• May 11 Gathering: Holding the Tension

  

  How can holding the various tensions in life open our hearts to experiencing reality more fully?

  Joe

  May 7, 2025

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cruciform, Easter, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, resistance, resurrection, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• May 4 Gathering: Transaction or Transformation?

  

  What if we began to view the crucifixion and resurrection not as transactional, but transformative?

  Joe

  April 30, 2025

  Gatherings

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

• April 27 Gathering: A Whole New World

  

  If our claims of resurrection are true, how can we best live into them?

  Joe

  April 21, 2025

  Gatherings

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

• April 20 Gathering: NO GATHERING (Easter Sunday)

  

  No gathering this Sunday

  Joe

  April 16, 2025

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, Easter, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, kindness, lent, lent for spiritual exiles, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, relationships, repent, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• April 13 Gathering: Justice & Wholeness (Palm Sunday)

  

  Can there be true healing without justice, and true justice without healing?

  Joe

  April 9, 2025

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, kindness, lent, lent for spiritual exiles, love, new wineskins, Palm Sunday, peace, pub church, pub theology, relationships, repent, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• April 6 Gathering: The Possibility of Wounds

  

  Can we allow our pain to be a source of growth?

  Joe

  April 2, 2025

  Gatherings

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