Beer + Star Wars = Modern-day Church?

Last updated on: May 22, 2015 at 6:00 am by Alicia de los Reyes

Beer + Star Wars = Modern-day Church? 2015-05-21T10:03:21-08:00 Alicia de los Reyes

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Writer Craig Brown of The Sound, a weekly based in Seacoast New Hampshire, sat in on a “Pub Theology” meet-up in Newburyport, MA.

A Pub Theology meet-up at The Grog in Newburyport, MA, c/o Craig Robert Brown

On the screen the Red Sox are losing their match-up against the Toronto Blue Jays. But those gathered aren’t the usual baseball devotees there for the game. This is a bimonthly meeting of Pub Theology Newburyport, and the group is there to discuss religion, spirituality, “Star Wars,” the riots in Baltimore, and everything in between.

Pub Theology chapters have been springing up since Bryan Berghoef wrote Pub Theology: Beer, Conversation, and God in 2012. The meet-ups welcome everyone regardless of creed, but tend to attract the “spiritual-but-not-religious” crowd (a subset of the rising number of nones the Pew Research Center recorded in their latest study). Groups gather to discuss matters of faith, without subscribing to any particular faith.

A move out of the traditional church and into peoples’ homes and normal gathering spots…hmm, this sounds familiar.

Read the full story, including how Star Wars is connected to religion (maybe) at The Sound.

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