Tag: new wineskins
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March 25 Gathering: Palm Sunday–Celebration or Subversion?
So what if we’re missing the point of Palm Sunday. What if it’s less celebration and more subversion? Not so much a shindig as a scandal?
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March 11 Gathering: Faith or Fear?
Often, it seems our faith is motivated more by fear than by love. Fear of death, fear of the other, fear of the unknown. Fear of punishment. Fear of hell.
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Feb. 11 Gathering: Vulnerability
What if vulnerability is actually at the heart of what it means to be fully human? What if, without vulnerability, we are missing out on something that is at the core of our true essence?
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Jan. 28 Gathering: What’s Our Story?
As it happens, stories have immense power. And what we do with the power of our own stories in many ways defines who it is that we actually are.
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Dec. 17 Gathering: Christmas Traditions – Finding Sacredness in the Ordinary
What if we began to recognize the sacredness in our ordinary routines? To find that behind the garland-covered mantles, the overbaked sugar cookies, the elves on assorted shelves, and the inside family jokes was something deeply holy?
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Dec. 3 Gathering: Advent, Incarnation & Expectation
Maybe consumer culture really has won Christmas. Or maybe we really can recapture that sense of excitement and anticipation as Advent unfolds.
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Dec. 19 Gathering: Shaped by Gratitude
Everyday sights, smells, and sounds that trigger something deep within us that foster a a rich sense of thankfulness in our very core.
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Nov. 5 Gathering: Living Dislocated
Is there something in our struggle to know and be known by God that dislocates us?
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Oct. 22 Gathering: Is God gendered?
This week at New Wineskins we’ll talk about the issue of God and gender, discuss how patriarchy affects our perceptions of God, and consider the history and importance of the Divine Feminine.