A year or so ago a story about this group from a local church who meets in a brewpub in town to talk about theology made the local paper. Sunday morning, I found it in the NYTimes, with a new angle; on how groups like this work, and how they see social and political issues entwined with faith.
Southern Baptists, as a rule, do not drink. But once a month, young congregants of the Journey, a Baptist church here, and their friends get together in the back room of a sprawling brew pub called the Schlafly Bottleworks to talk about the big questions: President Bush, faith and war, the meaning of life, and “what’s wrong with religion.”
“That’s where people are having their conversations about things that matter,” the Rev. Darrin Patrick, senior pastor and founder of the Journey, said about the talks in the bar. “We go where people are because we feel like Jesus went to the people.”
As a side note, I do recommend a visit to Schlafly Bottleworks if you’re going through St. Louis!
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