Denver Brew Theology

Date: Thursday, Sept 10 @ 7:00pm
Location: Strange Craft Beer Co.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83219357817
Curriculum: Coming Soon!

The word Agnostic was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 to describe the position that we shouldn't claim to know what we have no grounds for knowing. But the idea of an unknowable divine reality stretches back thousands of years. In this conversation, we'll explore what happens when we loosen our grip on certainty and consider the possibility that the divine is less like a proposition to be proven and more like water: something we can experience, move through, and encounter, but never quite hold onto.

Come ready to wrestle with your own certainties, doubts, assumptions, and experiences of faith. Could agnosticism actually make room for a more fluid, evolving spirituality—one that leaves room for mystery, growth, and the possibility that tomorrow's encounter with the divine might look different from today's?

We hope you will join us for an eclectic and engaging topic over some delicious beers from Strange Craft Beer Co!

Date: Thursday, Sept 24 @ 7:00pm
Location: Strange Craft Beer Co.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83219357817
Curriculum: Coming Soon!

Growth—spiritual or otherwise—often begins when something disrupts the patterns that have allowed us to remain comfortable, certain, or unchanged. Sometimes the disruption happens to us: a loss, conflict, failure, encounter with another culture, injustice, or profound relationship. Other times, we choose it through practices like meditation, fasting, pilgrimage, silence, service, forgiveness, or simply challenging assumptions we have carried for years. Human beings are creatures of habit, and the routines, identities, beliefs, and relationships we build can give our lives stability and meaning. But those same patterns can also become limiting. Across religious traditions, we find stories of people whose lives were interrupted—and whose disruption became the beginning of a deeper way of seeing and being.

But not all disruption is positive. Rebellion can become ego, change can become novelty-seeking, and questioning can become cynicism. Breaking away from one set of rigid rules can simply lead us into another. So perhaps the more interesting question isn't simply whether something disrupts the status quo, but what the disruption makes possible?

Perhaps spiritual growth isn't about reaching a final, perfected state where nothing can disturb us. Maybe it is becoming increasingly capable of being disrupted without being destroyed by disruption—and learning to recognize interruptions as invitations to change. Come join us for a conversation about the patterns we inherit, the patterns we create, and what might become possible when we're willing to break them. Hope you will join us!

Date: Thursday, October 8 @ 7:00pm
Location: Strange Craft Beer Co.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83219357817
Curriculum: Coming Soon!

We live in a world that constantly asks for more of us: more opinions, more outrage, more consumption, more certainty, more scrolling. We can respond instantly, share without thinking, speak with confidence about things we barely understand, and outsource more and more of our thinking to machines. But what happens when our ability to pause, reflect, discern, and know ourselves begins to erode?

The ancient Greeks had a word for a quality that feels very relevant today: sophrosyne. Often translated as “sound-mindedness,” it describes a kind of inner balance—a combination of moderation, self-knowledge, self-control, humility, and the ability to recognize when we might be wrong. For Plato and Aristotle, it wasn't simply about restraint or being “good.” It was about bringing the different parts of ourselves into harmony and developing the practical wisdom to know what is worth pursuing. In other words, sophrosyne was part of what it meant to live a genuinely good and flourishing life.

At this meetup, we'll explore what this ancient virtue might have to teach us in an age of social media, AI, conspiracy theories, extreme consumption, and increasingly polarized public life. Is moderation still a virtue when everything around us rewards excess? What does it mean to know ourselves in a world constantly trying to shape our attention? And can we cultivate the kind of wisdom that helps us distinguish what is true, what is good, and what is simply demanding our attention?

Let's talk it over, as we always do, with delicious beers and great company. We hope you will join us!