06.01.2008 10:03 am
When beer and faith go together
Special to the Post-Dispatch
Today’s New York Times ran an article on “young evangelicals” that features a twenty-somethings church that meets at the Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood. I personally know of at least one other church that meets there regularly.
One of the first lessons I learned in studying religions is that no group, community, or movement is ever monolithic. The Times article speaks to that fact, focusing on a group of evangelicals that could be located within “emergent” evangelical Christianity, communities that tend to be younger who would appear conservative to some, and quite progressive to others.
Goes to show how far labels get’cha.
Travis Scholl, 35, is managing editor of theological publications at Concordia Seminary. A graduate of Yale Divinity School (MDiv), he is an ordained Lutheran minister. Despite some time away, he and his wife are native St. Louisans, as is the child they are now raising. 
