An excerpt of the book was published in the April 2012 issue of Christianity Today. Check it out here!

You will find recordings from the evening below. Please feel free to send friends and family who might want to learn more about New Wine to this page. Thank you again for your partnership!

Introduction

Ronn Elzinga

Philip Berlin

Paul Metzger

Ronn Elzinga

Gretchen Cain

Cliff Chappell

Ronn Elzinga

David Austin

Closing

What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be a woman? Does it even matter? How do these questions bear upon topics such as how we work together in society at large and the church in ways that affirm and promote us in all that God has created us to be? It is so important to seek clarity with civility in pursuit of biblical unity, diversity, and honor in a culture where our beauty as God’s human creation is so often endangered by physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse. We approached gender identity from a variety of angles in a biblically integrated and in a culturally meaningful manner. We had a full slate of topics including gender roles, sex trafficking, pornography, gender non-conforming, masculinity, femininity, complementarianism, egalitarianism, the Trinity and gender, gender and social construction, headship, and ethnicity and gender.

New Wine hosted this conference on Saturday, March 3 from 9am – 4pm at Multnomah Biblical Seminary (8435 NE Glisan St. in Portland). Speakers included Steve and Celestia Tracy (Mending the Soul Ministries), Val Clemen (Multnomah Biblical Seminary), Barbara Feil (Multnomah Biblical Seminary), Paul Louis Metzger (New Wine Director), Brad Harper (New Wine Associate Director), Domani Pothen (Multnomah University), Elizabeth List (Multnomah University), Michael Gurney (Multnomah University), Tom Schiave (Multnomah Biblical Seminary), Katie Langner (Multnomah Biblical Seminary), Wink Chin (New Wine), Cliff Chappell (New Wine), and Beyth Hogue Greenetz (New Wine).

Click here to see the schedule for the conference.

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Click here to listen to an audio recording of Conversation Starter: Talking Gender with Paul Louis Metzger.

Click here to listen to an audio recording of Joy, Pain, or Shame: The Divine Purpose for Gender and Sexuality with Steve & Celestia Tracy.

Click here to listen to an audio recording of Intimacy Disrupted: The Relational Impact of Porn on Men and Women with Steve & Celestia Tracy.

Click here to listen to an audio recording of Gender Identity and the Trinity with Katie Langner.

Click here to listen to an audio recording of Beyond the Complementarian-Egalitarian Impasse with Brad Harper, Barbara Feil, Val Clemen, and Mike Gurney.

Click here to listen to The Elephant in the Room: Sexuality and Gender with Steve & Celestia Tracy.

Click here to listen to Gender and Ministry: One Woman’s Story with Barbara Feil.

Click here to listen to Healthy Male/Female Relationships: A Trinitarian Corrective with Steve & Celestia Tracy.

Click here to listen to Outside the Box: When “Boy” or “Girl” Doesn’t Fit with Wink Chin, Brad Harper, Beyth Hogue Greenetz, Elizabeth List, and Tom Schiave.

And hanging with Dr. Perkins? Always a highlight. Video of Dr. Paul Louis Metzger’s interview with Dr. John M. Perkins during a plenary session address at The Justice Conference is available here for $2.99.

Our heartfelt thanks to Cornelia Becker Seigneur for capturing some of these memories for us!

L – R: Dr. Randy Woodley, Dr. LeRoy Haynes, Jr., John Canda, Steve Hanamura, Paul Louis Metzger, Dr. John M. Perkins, Jeri Williams

Dr. Paul Louis Metzger interviewing Dr. John M. Perkins at The Justice Conference

Live in the Bay Area? Join us on Tuesday, November 22 for an event considering issues of gang violence and how our families, churches, communities, and nation can be present at the table.

Click here to RSVP by November 10.

Yes, we accept registrations at the door! Swing by around 8:30am and we’ll get you all squared away.

People worship. Whether we’re talking about money, work, sex, drugs, rock n roll, or the Triune God. At this conference, we will reflect upon how technology and social media help foster or hinder authentic communion with the Triune God and community with the church and culture at large. We will use worship as a seminal case study, both because many churches frame their community around the “worship experience” and because there is a sense in which all individuals worship someone or something.

Subjects addressed at the conference will include the “fourth wall” which separates leader from participant, forcing us to rethink our models of worship relative to technology. We will ask whether the church’s use of technology seeks simply to improve consumer cultural idolatry (mere entertainment) or if it causes us to enter into the Triune God’s presence corporately. We will examine the double-edged sword of technology and social media, which enables churches to establish satellite campuses – a practice whose theological impact is bound up with our implementation. Further, we will examine how technology impacts our relationships, our authenticity, and our capacity for intimacy.

Our speakers will consider how the church and culture have historically stewarded its resources, dating back to ancient forms of technology. Stories will be shared of utilizing space either for or in spite of public missional engagement.

Keynote speaker, Quentin Schultze, is a leading voice on media and its place in service to Christian worship and mission, as well as a prolific author. Some of his recent titles include High-Tech Worship? Using Presentational Technologies Wisely; Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtuously in the Information Age; Communicating for Life: Christian Stewardship in Community and Media; and many more. Dr. Schultze will help us discern how best to proceed so that we can love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. He will articulate that technology, like the Sabbath, is made for humans – not the other way around. As actors in the theater of redemption, Dr. Schultze will exhort us to be on guard that we do not let technology use us, but that we use it in the church’s worship experience and in the broader culture of creation.

The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins of Multnomah Biblical Seminary at Multnomah University brings a theological-cultural vision to this subject. New Wine leaders Dr. Paul Louis Metzger (director), Dr. Brad Harper (associate director), and Dr. Robert Redman (dean of Multnomah Biblical Seminary) will provide biblical and theological underpinnings for the church’s wise stewardship of its various means of communication. They will demonstrate how such resources can be used for the building up of the Christian community and its mission in the world.

Join New Wine, New Wineskins and Quentin Schultze for this educational conference November 5, 2011 from 9:00am – 4:30pm at Imago Dei Community (1302 SE Ankeny, Portland). Registration is available here. General admission tickets are $20. Student tickets are $5. For more information, email newwine@multnomah.edu.

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Roundtable discussion, Spring Thaw Round Table

William F. Storrar, Peter J. Casarella, and Paul Louis Metzger at the book launch for their new volume "A World for All?:Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology" at DePaul University's World Catholicism Week on April 13, 2011

This has been a prolific year for Dr. Metzger! In addition to other recent releases (here and here), A World for All?: Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology is a new volume co-edited by Dr. Paul Louis Metzger, Dr. William F. Storrar, and Dr. Peter J. Casarella.

This book reflects on globalization, ethics, and religion, social theorists and theologians consider answers to this pivotal question. In their ecumenical, interdisciplinary dialogue, capped off by five local case studies from around the world, they contemplate a globally inclusive social vision unbounded by national and ethnic borders and examine the ongoing relationship between civil society and the church that worships a Trinitarian God.

Contributors include Daniela C. Augustine, Alexander Broadie, J. Kameron Carter, Peter J. Casarella, William J. Danaher, Kimberly Hutchings, Kristen Deede Johnson, John Keane, Nico Koopman, Christoffel Lombard, Paul Louis Metzger, Petr Pokorny, J. Jayakiran Sebastian, Rudolf von Sinner, Dirkie Smit, Max L. Stackhouse, and William F. Storrar.

The book is available for purchase here.

Click below for the audio from this interview.

Interview, part 1
Interview, part 2
Interview, part 3

Friday, June 3 from 7 – 9pm : open to the public
Imago Dei Community (1302 SE Ankeny in Portland)

In today’s world, Osama bin Laden symbolizes a lot of things to a lot of people. In our nation alone, his life is celebrated, despaired, and feared by religious groups, political organizations, and individuals. With bin Laden’s recent death, we have been bombarded by a range of responses. From parties, to shrines, to political jockeying, it can be hard to find your own voice. This forum will be an opportunity to develop a Christian response to the death of bin Laden and the world he left behind. We will consider the Church’s public witness on the war of terror by reflections from New Wine leaders, Dr. Paul Louis Metzger and Dr. Brad Harper, and by hearing from several individuals in the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community which is promoting a project called Muslims for Peace.

Watch a video from CBN about the Muslims for Peace project.

Refer to this list of books, articles, films, organizations, etc. relevant to this discussion.

UPDATE: Click here to listen to an audio recording of this event.

What do you think?

EDITOR’S UPDATE: You might also enjoy a roundtable discussion between Paul Louis Metzger, Rick McKinley, and Rob Hildebrand which addresses engaging tensions such as Milan suggests below. Click here to listen to the audio of that discussion.

“Bon Voyage…”

“Farewell…”

These are words that create a mental picture for me. The same way that “Your Excellency” creates a picture of someone bowed low to receive a king.

With “farewell” or “bon voyage” I picture an early 20th century scene. A large passenger ship pulling away from a pier filled with people looking back at the familiar audience left standing on the dock. The family members wave back and forth wishing “bon voyage” or “farewell.” The atmosphere is filled with love, longing, and good.

\fer-‘wel\ = a wish of well-being at parting

Recently “farewell” has taken on a new meaning. It has been used in a way that means exactly the opposite of its literal meaning.

In one short message (Pastor John Piper’s Tweet) that circled the world, ”farewell” had its meaning flipped. In <140 characters, the world received a message that was bigger than the message itself.

In a world of hyper-fast communication, using the most universal mediums with the fewest characters possible, we have to be aware of the complex messages we create and communicate in 140 letters. Today the message is much more than the message, if you know what I mean.

On February 26th Pastor John Piper sent a tweet that has spread like wildfire: “Farewell Rob Bell. http://dsr.gd/fZqmd8”.

This was his response to Pastor Rob Bell’s new book Love Wins, which wouldn’t be released for another two weeks. It seemed clear that Mr. Piper had drawn some conclusions, and he wanted the world to get his message. Of course “farewell” meant something in this message… but what? And more importantly, what is the larger ripple effect of such a statement?

I’m definitely not writing this reflection to debate the content of Bell’s book. That has been over-debated already. I’m actually arguing that a more important debate should arise: “Does it matter how Christians communicate with one another and to the world?”

There are two problems with Piper’s message to the world.

First, to say “farewell” is to suggest that somehow Piper is standing in one place (a place of authority/knowledge/etc.) while wishing “goodbye” to Bell, who is headed to some other place. We aren’t sure to where Piper was wishing him farewell.

Is John Piper the standard by which we measure the debate? Is he the man who can stand in a position to “wish” farewell to someone else? Piper’s message communicates to the ever-watching world an authority structure that may not, or shouldn’t, exist. Is Piper the schoolmaster who sends the dunce to the corner?

It raises an important topic, hopefully to be discussed later, about the structures of authority within the universal Church. Is there one? Should there be one? If so, what does it look like in a 21st century global world that is ever increasingly anti-authoritarian? There is a clear biblical standard for authority, but we have divided ourselves to the point that each man or each tiny denomination is its own ultimate authority.

Second (and much more significant than the first), the most damaging aspect of the actions taken in the tweet is the negative impact on the overall Christian witness in the world.

I do know scripture enough to know that John 13:35 does NOT say: “By this all men will know you are my disciples, if you have the proper view of hell.” Instead, it actually says they will know you follow Jesus “if you love one another.”

Any good Bible scholar can find loopholes and ways to wiggle around the blatant truth proclaimed here. You can parse it out and go to the Greek and even redirect attention by focusing on “speaking the truth” or the “watchtower” mentality against heresy. But at the end of the day the statement remains clear. The world will know more about us and what we stand for by how we treat each other than by the explanation of our nuanced beliefs. Therefore, the way in which we treat one another (members of the body of Christ) matters significantly in communicating the truth of the Gospel.

To flippantly send someone away is to communicate to the world that we aren’t even capable of first loving one another. If we don’t love one another even in the worst of times/conditions/shattered theologies, then it is a symptom of a wretched disease. That disease is disunity which in essence is screaming to the world that a loving God isn’t all that real.

Who is this Jesus guy? Does he really impact my thoughts, my message… my tweets?

I have no doubt that both Pastor Bell and Pastor Piper love Jesus. If together we love Jesus then our greatest priorities in life are living for Him and making Him known. And believe it or not, that comes before debating theology, amassing huge followings, even tweeting. I love Dr. Paul Louis Metzger’s interpretation of the Apostle John’s vision at the end of his book Consuming Jesus. Metzger sees a banquet table that includes men from opposite sides of the debate sitting together with Jesus, from MLK Jr. to Jerry Falwell. If Jesus will bring us together to sit at the banquet table tomorrow, then it should impact how we see each other today. At the very least, we should be able to love one another so that the world might know this profound love of God.

To learn more about Dr. Metzger and Abbot Carlson’s friendship, click here to read a profile of them in Tricycle Magazine, Fall 2006.

This event will be held the afternoon of April 28 at Dharma Rain Zen Center. Email newwine@multnomah.edu for more info and to RSVP.

Click here to listen to an audio recording from this event.

Presented by Western Seminary in collaboration with Multnomah University and Corban University, the Faith & Culture Writers Conference: Taking our writing to the streets, the coffee shops, and yes, the church.

When: Saturday, April 2, 2011
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Where: Western Seminary, Portland Campus
5511 SE Hawthorne Boulevard
Portland, OR 97215-3367
503-517-1830
Cost: $65, includes lunch; students $25

Why are 20 international speakers, activists, theologians, bloggers, publishers, literary agents, professors and award winning authors of every genre gathering to encourage local writers to use their lives and their words to engage and shape culture right here in Oregon—one of the most un-churched regions in the area?

Because Jesus did not sit in church waiting for people to drop by; he mixed with the masses where they were living everyday life. We want to motivate others to do the same through their gift of writing.

There is no “box” to think outside of today—it has been kicked to the curbside and all but trashed. Technology is making electronic books, 24-hour news, self-publishing, I-Pad movies, books sold by mass-marketers such as Amazon and Costco and paid blogging all part of the world of words. Technology is responsible for relationships built on content and delivery rather than face-to-face or face-to page communications.

Director of The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins, Dr. Paul Louis Metzger is one of two keynote speakers. Complete event details can be found here.

Check out Dr. Metzger’s new book! Click here for purchase information.

At this year’s banquet, we have the privilege of hearing lots of stories of New Wine’s catalytic influence in individual lives and collective communities. Keynote speaker, Suzie Slonaker, is a long-time friend of New Wine. She is the founder of REACH Ministries and her life has been characterized by a profoundly compassionate embrace. In Suzie’s presence, it’s hard not to invoke thoughts of Mother Teresa. Suzie cares deeply and passionately for the most broken and discarded members of our society. Her legacy with REACH Ministries is incarnational theology at its best – God has manifested his transformative love through Suzie’s strong advocacy and tender care for children and families suffering under the oppression of HIV/AIDS. We have much to learn from Suzie’s heart. Join us on Friday, November 12 from 6 – 9pm to be inspired by how New Wine has shaped her work.

An RSVP is required by Monday, November 8. For more details, please email newwine@multnomah.edu.

If you would like more information about New Wine or are interested in becoming part of the New Wine community, you are invited to join us on Wednesday, October 6 at 6:00pm for a dinner and orientation. There is no cost for this event. Please call (503) 251-6767 or email newwine@multnomah.edu for more information.

Click here to register for the conference. And YES, you may register at the door!

There are two wailing walls. One is the remains of the Temple, symbolizing in part the sense of oppression the Jews experienced under foreign invaders and their longing for their dreams as a people to be realized. The other wailing wall is that erected by the Jewish state, and which the Palestinians believe marginalizes and keeps them from pursuing their dreams as a people.

This conference seeks to draw attention to the often-unrecognized sufferings of the Palestinian people, and to pursue peace that benefits them as well as Israel. The Western church needs to be concerned for Palestinians (including Palestinian Christians) as well as Israelis and other peoples in the region in view of God’s promises made to Abraham for his sons Isaac and Ishmael and which are ultimately fulfilled in Jesus.

Dr. Tony Maalouf, Director of the MA in Islamic Studies program at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will be our keynote speaker at this New Wine, New Wineskins conference. Other speakers include David Austin, former executive director of the State Department’s Interfaith Cooperative Initiative in the Holy Land; Debbie Bayes, ESL teacher to the West Bank; Al Baylis, Professor of Bible and Theology at Multnomah Biblical Seminary; Brad Harper, Professor of Theology at Multnomah University; Daniel Isaak, President of the Oregon Board of Rabbis; Richard Reno, President of Portland’s Rizwan Mosque; Leonard Rodgers, Director of Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding; and Judith Rood, Professor of History at Biola University, specializing in the problem of relations between Muslims, Christians and Jews from an historical perspective. Join us on Saturday, October 2 from 9:00am – 4:30pm at Multnomah Biblical Seminary (8435 NE Glisan St.; Portland, OR 97220) for a thought-provoking and eye-opening day.

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To learn more about what we’ll be discussing at the conference, explore some of these books, articles, lectures and films.

BOOK Arabs in the Shadow of Israel: The Unfolding of God’s Prophetic Plan for Ishmael’s Line by Tony Maalouf (conference keynote speaker!)

BOOK Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter

BOOK Whose Land, Whose Promise?: What Christians Are Not Being Told About Israel and the Palestinians by Gary Burge

BOOK The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan

ARTICLE The Awkward Silence in the Church by “Palcoria Jesusequitur”

ARTICLES and LECTURES Christ at the Checkpoint: Theology in the Service of Peace and Justice from Bethlehem Bible College

MUSIC VIDEO Love and Peace or Else by U2

FILM With God on Our Side

FILM Paradise Now

FILM Promises

ORGANIZATION Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding

ORGANIZATION Venture International

At this introductory event to Owning the Pond Together: developing communities through entrepreneurship, Dr. Paul Louis Metzger will confess that the white church has historically failed to engage the black church with a sense of relational need. Together, Dr. Metzger and Dr. John M. Perkins will urge the church to long for authentic and holistic solidarity. With such a vision in mind, they will lay the foundation for what it means to “own the pond together.”

Join us for this FREE event on Friday, April 9th from 7:00 – 9:00pm at Emmanuel Temple Church (1033 N. Sumner; Portland).

Overflow: Spring 2010

The Duke Summer Institute is not a conference for the many but a learning space limited to 200 Christian leaders to go deep. Over five days of renewal and learning with Christian leaders from across the U.S. and world – through worship, shared meals, plenary sessions, and in-depth cohorts – you will be led by world-class theologians and practitioners of reconciliation and justice ministry. In 2009 there were participants from 23 states and 7 countries. Your fellow participants this summer will include a cohort from east Africa, senior leadership teams from national organizations, several groups from cities and Christian colleges and universities, and leaders from the grassroots to churches to national and international organizations as well as lay Christians concerned about their families, communities and places of worship, work, and life. Scholarships are available through April 9th. Applications will be accepted online through May 7th. Click here for more information and to apply.

Overflow: Winter 2010

New Wine director, Paul Louis Metzger, articulated the vision and passion of New Wine.

New Wine Advisory Council member, Cooky Wall, and New Wine intern, Joe Enlet, spoke of New Wine’s role in their personal commitments to holistic cultural engagement.

Executive Vice President of the Luis Palau Association, Kevin Palau, spoke of how New Wine helped in providing the theological undergirding for the Luis Palau Association’s Season of Service.

John Morehead of the Western Institute for Intercultural Studies

Milan Homola of Compassion Connect and Alyssa Agee of Second Stories

Mike Abbaté, author of Gardening Eden and Rusty Pritchard of Flourish

Tony Kriz and Dan Merchant of Lord, Save Us From Your Followers

This jam-packed day of thoughtful enrichment included presentations, workshops, and panels by Paul Louis Metzger (New Wine, New Wineskins, Multnomah Biblical Seminary at Multnomah University), John Morehead (Western Institute for Intercultural Studies), Rusty Pritchard (Flourish), Mike Abbaté (Urban Design & Planning Director, Gresham), Clark Blakeman (Second Stories), Tony Kriz (New Wine, New Wineskins), Caleb Rosado (Warner Pacific College), Gary Tribbett (Compassion Connect), Brad Harper (New Wine, New Wineskins), Dan Merchant (Lord, Save Us From Your Followers), Cliff Chappell (New Wine, New Wineskins), Steve Baker (Southwest Washington Medical Center), Derek Chinn (New Wine, New Wineskins), Roger Trautmann (Multnomah Biblical Seminary at Multnomah University), Rachel O’Brien (New Wine, New Wineskins) and more!

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Conference audio recordings are now available! Click below to download any of the plenary talks, panels, or workshops presented at the conference.

Plenary Session 1
Reframing Gospel Witness: Beyond Ned Flanders and the Fascists with Paul Louis Metzger
NEIGHBOR Subjective Life Spiritualities and Post-Christiandom Missions with John Morehead
NEIGHBORHOOD Neighboring, Community Development, and Sidewalks in the Kingdom with Rusty Pritchard
PUBLIC SQUARE Accountable to God While Answering to the People with Mike Abbaté
Panel with Paul Louis Metzger, Rusty Pritchard, and John Morehead

Workshops 1
NEIGHBOR From Cults to Cultures: Bridges, Grounded, and Transitions as a Case Study in a New Evangelical Paradigm on New Religions with John Morhead
NEIGHBORHOOD Together in Story; Holistic Proclamation with Clark Blakeman
PUBLIC SQUARE The Lost Art of Place-making: What We Build Shapes How We Love with Rusty Pritchard

Plenary Session 2
NEIGHBOR Practicing Faith Together with Tony Kriz
NEIGHBORHOOD From Duality to Oneness: A Fresh Perspective on Neighborhoods with Caleb Rosado
PUBLIC SQUARE Lord, Save Us From Your Followers with Dan Merchant
Panel with Paul Louis Metzger, Roger Trautmann, Tony Kriz, Caleb Rosado, and Dan Merchant

Workshops 2
NEIGHBOR The Life of a Friend: the Dynamics of Verbal and Non-Verbal Evangelism with Tony Kriz
NEIGHBORHOOD Which Way to the Future? with Caleb Rosado
PUBLIC SQUARE I Am Dobson: Converting Societal Structures with Paul Louis Metzger

Workshops 3
NEIGHBOR Won’t You Be My Neighbor? with Ben Malick & Rachel O’Brien, New Wine Interns
NEIGHBORHOOD Uniting to Serve: Churches Working Together to Demonstrate the Love of Christ through Unity and Service with Gary Tribbett
PUBLIC SQUARE Church-Based Medicine for the Underserved, Evangelism, and Engaging the Structures of Healthcare with Steve Baker

Plenary Session 3
Panel with Paul Louis Metzger, Roger Trautmann, Rusty Pritchard, John Morehead, Clark Blakeman, Tony Kriz, Caleb Rosado, Ben Malick, Rachel O’Brien, Ronaldo Sison, Gary Tribbett, Steve Baker, and Brad Harper

College and Seminary students, join us Thursday, September 17th at 8:00pm in the JCA.

Overflow: September 2009

Dr. John Perkins of the John M. Perkins Foundation

Rick McKinley of Imago Dei Community

Nancy Haught of The Oregonian and John Fortmeyer of Christian News Northwest

Richard Twiss of Wiconi International

…and Georgene Rice herself!

New Wine director, Paul Louis Metzger, articulated the history and passion of New Wine.

New Wine Advisory Council member, Lindsey Smith, and New Wine intern, Ross Halbach, spoke of how New Wine has provided a theological basis for their personal commitments to multicultural engagement.

President of Wiconi International, Richard Twiss, spoke of his and New Wines’s shared value of engaging culture faithfully, not fearfully.

New Wine director, Paul Louis Metzger, articulated the vision and missional passion of New Wine.

New Wine interns, Andreas Lundén and Crystal Santos, spoke of New Wine’s role in their personal efforts to engage culture.

Environmentalist and director of Restoring Eden, Peter Illyn, gave a talk entitled “Belly Button Christianity – Encountering Jesus in Tribal Culture,” giving a tangible example of how cultural engagement refines our understanding of Christ.

New Wine director, Paul Louis Metzger, articulated the history and passion of New Wine.

New Wine friends, Letha McCloud, and graphic designer, Steve Mitchell, spoke of New Wine’s role in their personal commitments to holistic cultural engagement.

Don Miller (author of Blue Like Jazz) spoke of the necessity to build a bridge back to culture, crystallizing New Wine’s commitment to bearing witness to Christ in contemporary culture.