When we think about Spirit, is it something that simply inspires us in our private lives, through provoking certain thoughts, ideas, or actions? Or do we see Spirit as something that might move us collectively in the larger spheres of our public lives and interactions?
Category: Gatherings
Jan. 17 Gathering: Seeking Aliveness Part 2: Jesus
Many of us find ourselves in a place where we feel disenfranchised from institutional religion. A lot of us are finding that “church” in the ways we’ve always known it just isn’t working anymore. And yet, we still find Jesus compelling. We find the Gospels to tell a story within which we still want to center ourselves.
Jan. 10 Gathering: Seeking Aliveness Part 1: Faith
How do we view our faith traditions in light of their influence on our public lives? How can we institute practices that criticize the bad by practicing the better?
Jan. 3 Gathering: Disturbing Herod
Does the Epiphany story hold any meaning for us today? Are there imperialist leaders, systems, and structures that need to hear anew the challenge of a movement of the people of Jesus to topple the powers and principalities of greed, oppression, and marginalization?
Dec. 27 Gathering: The Watch Night Tradition
This week at New Wineskins, we’ll talk about what it means to be a community that watches and prays for emancipation and freedom as we head into 2021. We’ll discuss what we are waiting to be emancipated from and, more importantly, how we can be agents of emancipation for others who are still experiencing oppression and marginalization in our world today.
Immanuel
This Christmas Eve, we invite you to join us in a special visual liturgy and community love feast in the progressive Wesleyan tradition as we gather virtually to reflect on the incarnation and the holy revelation of the divine within the material.
New Wineskins Advent 2020
Advent is a story. Not just a story that happened but one that still happens. It’s a story of the divine breaking into humanity. It’s a story of how things are and the possibilities of what things can become.
Nov. 22: Community Sabbath
We’re taking a week off from our regular gatherings this Sunday to allow us a time for rest and reflection as we prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday and our upcoming observation of Advent.
Nov. 15 Gathering: Revolutionary Gratitude
What if we began to see gratitude not just as a private emotion, but as a revolutionary force that could change the world for the better?
Nov. 8 Gathering: The Road to Emmaus Revisited
This week at New Wineskins, we’ll take a fresh look at the story of the Emmaus Road from Luke 24:13-35 and see how it might reframe our cultural narrative in this time of tension and divisiveness.
