Tag: social justice

• Aug. 25 Gathering: “To Be In Awe”

  

  What is wisdom?

  Joe

  August 21, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, politics, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins, wisdom

• Aug. 18 Gathering: Is the Gospel Political? (Faith & Politics Week 3)

  

  Is the good news of Jesus inherently political?

  Joe

  August 14, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, politics, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, wineskins

• Aug. 11 Gathering: Faith & Politics (Week 2)

  

  Do systems built on scarcity turn patriotism into mere protection of the status quo?

  Joe

  August 7, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, divine encounter, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, patriotism, politics, pub church, pub theology, reality, scarcity, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, struggle, Suffering, the work of the people, wineskins

• Aug. 4 Gathering: Faith & Politics (Week 1)

  

  What does it look like to engage our faith with politics in a way that is fruitful rather than just nationalistic or performative?

  Joe

  July 31, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cultural christianity, divine encounter, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, struggle, Suffering, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins

• We’re taking a short break…

  

  New Wineskins is on summer hiatus until Aug. 4

  Joe

  July 1, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cultural christianity, divine encounter, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, struggle, Suffering, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins

• June 30 Gathering: Encountering the Divine In the Struggle

  

  What can we learn about Divine Love from the suffering of exploited people and communities?

  Joe

  June 26, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cultural christianity, divine encounter, Divine Love, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, struggle, Suffering, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins

• June 23 Gathering: Our Cosmic Identity (Part 2)

  

  How do we awaken to the divine spark not just in ourselves, but in others with different lived experiences?

  Joe

  June 19, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cosmic identity, cosmology, cultural christianity, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins

• June 16 Gathering: Our Cosmic Identity (Part 1)

  

  What might change if we began to see ourselves and experience our lives from a more cosmic perspective?

  Joe

  June 12, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cosmic identity, cosmology, cultural christianity, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, reality, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins

• June 9 Gathering: Grape Juice to Wine

  

  Once we see the radical, revolutionary, subversive way of Jesus, there’s no way to return to the status quo of institutional religion

  Joe

  June 5, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cultural christianity, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, love, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins

• May 26 Gathering: Encountering the Divine in the Ordinary

  

  Can mystical experiences happen in the midst of the mundane?

  Joe

  May 22, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Justice, love, mystical experience, mysticism, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, the work of the people, transcendence, wineskins