Tag: resistance

• Dec. 15 Gathering: “Spaces of Grace”

  

  Can we learn from each other’s differences and hold the tension between unconditional love and the expectancy of hope?

  Joe

  December 11, 2024

  Gatherings

  advent, community, contemplation, conversation, Faith, God, hope, hospitality, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Dec. 8 Gathering: “Habits of Hope”

  

  Can we hold the tension between the hard realities of the world and the possibilities for hope?

  Joe

  December 4, 2024

  Gatherings

  advent, community, contemplation, conversation, Faith, God, hope, hospitality, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Advent For Spiritual Exiles: Incarnating Wholeness

  

  Advent invites us into new ways to incarnate the wholeness of our spirituality and our humanity together.

  Joe

  November 27, 2024

  Gatherings

  advent, community, contemplation, conversation, Faith, God, hope, hospitality, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Nov. 24 Gathering: Do We Need Disagreement?

  

  Can disagreement be a key to our emotional & spiritual development?

  Joe

  November 20, 2024

  Gatherings

  aging, Barbara Brown Taylor, binary thinking, community, contemplation, conversation, dualism, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, lament, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Nov. 17 Gathering: Defeating Dualism

  

  Non-dualism can be an act of resistance in a world that prefers easy binaries

  Joe

  November 13, 2024

  Gatherings

  aging, Barbara Brown Taylor, binary thinking, community, contemplation, conversation, dualism, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, lament, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Nov. 10 Gathering: Re-Membering Our Stories

  

  Change always happens over time, not overnight. And so we must start the journey at the beginning.

  Joe

  November 6, 2024

  Gatherings

  aging, community, contemplation, conversation, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, lament, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, relationships, resistance, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• 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?

  Joe

  September 21, 2022

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, forgiveness, Jesus, Justice, liberation, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, resistance, social justice, story, wineskins

• Feb 6 Gathering: Discipleship as resistance

  Does Jesus invite his disciples not just to an alternative spiritual lifestyle, but an act of resistance against the exploitative social and economic systems of empire?

  Joe

  February 2, 2022

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, disciples, empire, Faith, fishing, Jesus, love, Luke 5, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, resistance, story, wineskins