Tag: love

• Aug 13 Gathering: The Oxymoron of Personal Salvation

  

  Is the idea of “personal salvation” an oxymoron?

  Joe

  August 9, 2023

  Gatherings

  anthropocene, community, conversation, cynthia bourgeault, enlightenment, Faith, holiness, Jesus, love, modernism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, salvation, series, sin, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Aug 6 Gathering: The Womanist Perspective

  

  This week at New Wineskins we’ll continue our summer series, “Sin, Holiness, and the Anthropocene” with a conversation on Womanist theology’s quest for wholeness in the face of patriarchal and white feminist ideologies.

  Joe

  August 2, 2023

  Gatherings

  anthropocene, Barbara A Holmes, community, conversation, Faith, holiness, Jesus, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, series, sin, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins, womanism, womanist, womanist theology

• July 30 Gathering: Sin, Holiness, and the Anthropocene

  

  For generations, the concepts of holiness and sin have been deeply entwined with the way we humans see ourselves in relationship to the Divine. But what role does our humanity itself have in those understandings?

  Joe

  July 26, 2023

  Gatherings

  anthropocene, community, conversation, Faith, holiness, Jesus, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, series, sin, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• July 23 Gathering: Open Forum

  

  This week at New Wineskins, we open the floor to your questions, ideas, thoughts, inspiration, etc.

  Joe

  July 19, 2023

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, love, new wineskins, open forum, pub church, pub theology, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• July 16: Quarterly Community Sabbath (No Gathering)

  

  Once every 3 months we take a break from our weekly gatherings to provide space for rest and renewal. It’s one of the spiritual practices that are part of the rhythm of our community.

  Joe

  July 11, 2023

  Gatherings

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

• July 9 Gathering: Original Love

  

  How do we extend the same kind of compassion and mercy to folks who wield their Christianity as a weapon as we do to those who are so often their victims?

  Joe

  July 5, 2023

  Gatherings

  big bang, community, conversation, Faith, ilia delio, Jesus, love, new wineskins, original love, pub church, pub theology, spiritual exiles, spiritual journey, story, wineskins

• July 2 Gathering: Independence Day for Spiritual Exiles

  

  Is the Doctrine of Discovery still alive and well in America, causing untold harm to folks on the receiving end of exploitation and colonization?

  Joe

  June 28, 2023

  Gatherings

  colonization, community, conversation, Faith, independence, Jesus, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, spiritual exiles, spiritual journey, story, wineskins

• June 25 Gathering: Josh Scott visits New Wineskins!

  

  Bible Stories for Grown-Ups author Josh Scott will join us LIVE during our June 25 gathering to answer your questions and dig even deeper into the interpretive lenses that inform the book we’ve been studying together for the past couple of months.

  Joe

  June 21, 2023

  Gatherings

  Bible, Bible Stories for Grown-Ups, community, conversation, Faith, interpretation, Jesus, josh scott, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, spiritual journey, story, wineskins

• June 18 Gathering: BYOB(v)

  

  This week at New Wineskins we’re inviting you to bring a particular Bible story that puzzles, bothers, or downright perplexes you, and we’ll see how viewing it through a specifically contextual lens helps us understand it

  Joe

  June 14, 2023

  Gatherings

  Bible, Bible Stories for Grown-Ups, community, conversation, Faith, interpretation, Jesus, josh scott, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, spiritual journey, story, wineskins

• June 11 Gathering: Where Do We Go From Here?

  

  How do contextual interpretive lenses shape our life as a community?

  Joe

  June 7, 2023

  Gatherings

  Bible, Bible Stories for Grown-Ups, community, conversation, Faith, Jesus, josh scott, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, spiritual journey, story, wineskins