April 25 Gathering: Reimagining Resurrection: Rediscovering Belief


This week at New Wineskins, we’ll continue our Easter Season series on Reimagining Resurrection by listening to Guite talk about Thomas and why his encounter with the resurrected Jesus is foundational to our own faith experiences (and why we’d all probably like to have a glass of whiskey with Thomas!)

April 18 Gathering: Re-imagining Resurrection Week 1: Reclaiming Joy


As Brown and Black communities mourn yet another string of police violence toward their children, as our nation continues to witness wave after wave of senseless gun violence, and as the societal trauma of the ongoing pandemic seems like it might never end, joy can become a difficult thing to imagine. But can our trauma be transformed?

A New Wineskins Easter Season: Reimagining Resurrection


During the Season of Easter our community will reflect on what it looks like to begin to emerge from the extended Lent of Pandemic that has been marked not just by Coronavirus, but also by our confrontation with injustice and oppression in its many forms: racism, white supremacy, homophobia, classism, and more.

Quilted Iconography: Practicing Resurrection Week 5


Studying holy images has become a lost discipline in many faith communities, but it has deep roots in almost every tradition. Using sections of her Underground Railroad quilt as guides, Barbara Rogerson will help us see how visual arts can bring forth deep spiritual truths, and how sharing those in the context of community can enhance our collective theology of justice for the oppressed.

Lectio Divina Storytelling: “Practicing Resurrection” Week 3


How we hear, interpret, and tell sacred stories helps us both live into and out of the narratives that shape us. This week Drew guides us on a community journey through story and gives us the opportunity to express how we experience the divine through the tales that arise within us.