Tag: subversive

• Oct. 3 Gathering: A Dissident Eucharist for Spiritual Exiles

  What if we could see the sacraments not just as rites we participate in as individuals for our own private spiritual experiences, but as subversive acts that emancipate whole communities and liberate those who exist on the margins of public policy and institutions?

  Joe

  September 29, 2021

  Gatherings

  communion, community, conversation, dissident, eucharist, Faith, Jesus, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, subversive, virtual community, virtual pub, virtual pub church, virtual theology pub, wineskins, world communion, world communion sunday

• 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?

  Joe

  March 22, 2018

  Faith, Gospel

  Easter, Holy Week, Jesus, new wineskins, Palm Sunday, Passion, pub church, scandal, subversive, wineskins

• Dec. 11 Gathering: Have Yourself A Subversive Little Christmas

  How many of us will tell the real story of Christmas this year? Not the one with the pastoral imagery of white-washed Nativities, but the one about the unlikely delivery of a child to an unwed couple in a filthy stable in a backwater town in a two-bit corner of the Roman empire?

  Joe

  December 8, 2016

  Faith, Gospel, Justice

  Christmas, community, conversation, Faith, Gospel, grace, hope, inclusive, Jesus, Justice, kingdom of god, love, Nativity, new wineskins, pub church, radical love, reconciling, story, subversive, wineskins