Tag: Jesus

• 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

• 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?

  Joe

  September 8, 2021

  Gatherings

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

• 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…

  Joe

  July 8, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, good trouble, holy mischief, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, nuns on the bus, pub church, pub theology, story, wineskins

• July 4 Gathering: De-colonizing Christianity

  This week at New Wineskins we’ll have a frank Independence Day discussion about decolonizing Christianity and the part we as individuals and communities have to play in it.

  Joe

  June 30, 2021

  Gatherings

  Christianity, colonization, community, conversation, history, Jesus, july 4, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, story, virtual pub church, white nationalism, wineskins

• June 27 Gathering: Objectifying God

  How do we objectify God? Join the conversation this Sunday! Also, Pride in the Park & Our Reconciling Ministries poll!

  Joe

  June 23, 2021

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, golden calf, idolatry, Jesus, misrepresenting God, moses, new wineskins, objectification, pub church, pub theology, self, spiritual exiles, virtual pub, virtual pub church, wineskins