Tag: Jesus

• (r)Advent Week 1: Hope

  What does hope look like in the context of liberationist communities? For one thing, it means examining our roles in combatting climate change and lifting up its effects on marginalized communities.

  Joe

  November 24, 2021

  Gatherings

  (r)Advent, advent, community, conversation, Faith, hope, Jesus, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, radical love, radical reorientation, story, virtual pub church, virtual theology pub, wineskins

• Welcome to (r)Advent

  This Advent season, we’ll engage with the traditional themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love and explore how they come to life in a justice-oriented community in a post-Christian world

  Joe

  November 23, 2021

  Gatherings

  (r)Advent, advent, conversation, embodiment, Faith, hope, incarnation, Jesus, joy, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, radical faith, radical love, radical reorientation, story, wineskins

• Nov. 21 Gathering: “Stone Catchers”

  For far too long, much of the church has been either silent or outright complicit in the evils of segregation, oppression, and marginalization…often either implicitly or explicitly supporting the systems and structures that have and continue to perpetuate such injustices. Is that what we’re called to? Is that in any way, shape, or form the…

  Joe

  November 17, 2021

  Gatherings

  beloved community, Bryan Stevenson, christ the king, community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, love, new wineskins, ordinary time, pub church, pub theology, reign of christ, story, the work of the people, wineskins, witness

• Nov. 14 Gathering: Undermining Fear

  “Fear is asking Love, ‘Can I trust you?’ […] Because of the work the Church isn’t doing to reverberate Love in the world, Love’s answer (is) not heard….” (Marlon Hall)

  Joe

  November 9, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, fear, Jesus, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, rennaisance, story, virtual pub church, virtual theology pub, wineskins

• Nov. 7 Gathering: The limitations of knowing

  We know our experience as human beings is limited by time and space. But even that knowing is limited. For instance, science tells us that many animals have better senses of sight, hearing, and smell than we do. So what does that tell us about what we are even able to know? What if reality…

  Joe

  November 3, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, indigenous spirituality, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, perception, pub church, pub theology, reality, story, virtual pub church, virtual theology pub, wineskins

• Oct. 31 Gathering: Does God get what God wants? An All Saints Day liturgy for spiritual exiles

  What if contradictions, doubt, and uncertainty have a purpose? What if the real key to knowing comes in the unknowing?

  Joe

  October 27, 2021

  Gatherings

  all saints day, community, contradictions, conversation, deconstruction, doubt, Faith, Jesus, liturgy, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, spiritual exiles, story, virtual pub, virtual pub church, virtual theology pub, wineskins

• Oct. 24 Gathering: The myth of personal salvation

  What is “salvation” and can it ever really be personal?

  Joe

  October 20, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, individualism, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, salvation, story, universalism, virtual pub, virtual pub church, virtual theology pub, wineskins

• 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?

  Joe

  October 8, 2021

  Gatherings

  capitalism, community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, jubilee, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, redistribution, story, walter brueggeman, wineskins

• 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?

  Joe

  September 29, 2021

  Gatherings

  communion, community, conversation, dissident, eucharist, Faith, Jesus, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, subversive, virtual community, virtual pub, virtual pub church, virtual theology pub, wineskins, world communion, world communion sunday

• Sept. 19 Gathering: Guest speaker Josh Scott on reading the parables

  This week at New Wineskins: Guest Speaker Josh Scott on reading the parables

  Joe

  September 16, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, interpretation, Jesus, love, new wineskins, parables, pub church, pub theology, story, virtual pub, virtual pub church, wedding party, wineskins