Tag: wineskins
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(r)Advent Week 1: Hope
What does hope look like in the context of liberationist communities? For one thing, it means examining our roles in combatting climate change and lifting up its effects on marginalized communities.
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Welcome to (r)Advent
This Advent season, we’ll engage with the traditional themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love and explore how they come to life in a justice-oriented community in a post-Christian world
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Nov. 21 Gathering: “Stone Catchers”
For far too long, much of the church has been either silent or outright complicit in the evils of segregation, oppression, and marginalization…often either implicitly or explicitly supporting the systems and structures that have and continue to perpetuate such injustices. Is that what we’re called to? Is that in any way, shape, or form the…
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Nov. 14 Gathering: Undermining Fear
“Fear is asking Love, ‘Can I trust you?’ […] Because of the work the Church isn’t doing to reverberate Love in the world, Love’s answer (is) not heard….” (Marlon Hall)
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Nov. 7 Gathering: The limitations of knowing
We know our experience as human beings is limited by time and space. But even that knowing is limited. For instance, science tells us that many animals have better senses of sight, hearing, and smell than we do. So what does that tell us about what we are even able to know? What if reality…
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Oct. 31 Gathering: Does God get what God wants? An All Saints Day liturgy for spiritual exiles
What if contradictions, doubt, and uncertainty have a purpose? What if the real key to knowing comes in the unknowing?
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Oct. 24 Gathering: The myth of personal salvation
What is “salvation” and can it ever really be personal?
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Oct. 17 Gathering: Why embodiment matters
Are we simply souls existing inside of bodies? Is our identity thoroughly spiritual without concern for the blood, bones, and flesh from which we’re made? Can we trust what our bodies tell us?
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Oct. 10 Gathering: Changing the Conversation
Do our religious institutions purposely ignore biblical mandates to care for those on the margins of society? How do we change the conversation?
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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?