This week we celebrate Black History Month by deconstructing how the biblical themes of light and darkness have been used to discriminate and oppress
Tag Archives: Justice
Oct. 2 Gathering: The Myth of Individuality
What if individuality is a delusion?
Sept. 25 Gathering: Crossing over to love
What do we do when the trite platitudes of the church—the ones that say God won’t give you more than you can handle or that our trials only make us stronger—show themselves to be wildly inadequate?
Jan. 23 Gathering: A prophetic moment
If the church is meant to be the body of Christ, why has it become so complicit with systems that exploit and objectify? Are we missing a prophetic moment?
Jan. 9 Gathering: An Epiphany for Spiritual Exiles
Is the primary reason to follow Jesus his ability to perform miracles? Or is there something more? Are there “greater things than these” we should be paying attention to?
(r)Advent Week 4: Love
This week at New Wineskins, we’ll end our (r)Advent journey with a discussion of how Love extended to those most oppressed and marginalized by our societal systems and structures is the heartbeat of reality and the key not only to their liberation, but our own.
(r)Advent Week 3: Joy
This week at New Wineskins, we’ll continue our celebration of (r)Advent by exploring the theme of Joy, where we find it, and how we can share it through acts of justice and liberation.
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 includes potentialities we simply can’t perceive?
Oct. 24 Gathering: The myth of personal salvation
What is “salvation” and can it ever really be personal?
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?