Tag: transformation

• July 6 Gathering: Braiding Sweetgrass Sections 1 & 2

  

  How do our creation stories inform our relationships with the earth and its inhabitants?

  Joe

  July 2, 2025

  Gatherings

  book study, braiding sweetgrass, community, conversation, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• June 1: Braiding Sweetgrass Book Study Begins

  

  Join us the first Sunday of every month this summer for our Braiding Sweetgrass book study!

  Joe

  May 27, 2025

  Gatherings

  book study, braiding sweetgrass, community, conversation, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• May 25 Gathering: Nothing Dies

  

  What if Jesus came not to show us how to be more spiritual, but how to be more human?

  Joe

  May 21, 2025

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, Easter, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, resurrection, richard rohr, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• May 18 Gathering: Body & Blood (and Whisky)

  

  What is the thing beyond the thing toward which resurrection is pointing us?

  Joe

  May 14, 2025

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, Easter, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, resurrection, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• May 11 Gathering: Holding the Tension

  

  How can holding the various tensions in life open our hearts to experiencing reality more fully?

  Joe

  May 7, 2025

  Gatherings

  community, contemplation, conversation, cruciform, Easter, Faith, God, hope, identity, Jesus, Justice, love, new wineskins, peace, pub church, pub theology, resistance, resurrection, social justice, spirit, spiritual exiles, story, transformation, wineskins

• May 4 Gathering: Transaction or Transformation?

  

  What if we began to view the crucifixion and resurrection not as transactional, but transformative?

  Joe

  April 30, 2025

  Gatherings

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

• May 19 Gathering: When Spirit Comes

  

  How do we know when we’ve experienced Divine Spirit?

  Joe

  May 15, 2024

  Gatherings

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

• May 12 Gathering: Interfaith Friendship

  

  When it comes to people of different faiths, how can we move away from “othering” and actually move closer toward one another?

  Joe

  May 7, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, God, interfaith, interfaith dialogue, Jesus, Justice, liturgy, love, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spiritual exiles, story, the work of the people, transformation, wineskins

• May 5 Gathering: From Fear to Transformation (Part 4)

  

  How can our faith traditions collaborate for the common good?

  Joe

  April 30, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, liturgy, love, mission, missional challenge, new wineskins, pub church, pub theology, social justice, spiritual exiles, story, the work of the people, transformation, wineskins

• April 28 Gathering: From Fear to Transformation (Part 3)

  

  Do our routines and rituals express openness and hospitality or exclusion and hostility?

  Joe

  April 24, 2024

  Gatherings

  community, conversation, Faith, God, Jesus, Justice, liturgical challenge, liturgy, love, new wineskins, practices, pub church, pub theology, rituals, social justice, spiritual exiles, story, the work of the people, transformation, wineskins