The Pre-Event

Pre-Theology Beer Camp brings together theologians, practitioners, pastors, and curious minds for plenary sessions, breakouts, and discussions exploring ideas centered on uncontrolling love, relationality, freedom, creativity, spirituality, and the future of faith.

Whether you’ve read every Tom Oord book, recently discovered process thought, or simply want thoughtful conversations with people asking meaningful questions, this day is designed to create space for learning, curiosity, and connection.

Thomas Jay Oord and Jonathan Foster will facilitate sessions alongside theologians, authors, philosophers, and practitioners exploring topics like:

• Open and relational theology and an evolving God
• Preaching and ministry through an ORT lens
• Theology centered on love and relationship
• Whitehead, Teilhard de Chardin, and process thought
• Neuro-relational theology
• Faith, freedom, science, creativity, and the future

Speakers include Tom Oord, Ilia Delio, Brian Zahnd, Andrew Davis, Shaleen Kendrick, Casey Sigmon, Matt Segall, Jonathan Foster, and more.

You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, and want the deep conversations.

You’re already coming to Theology Beer Camp and figured spending the day in conversation beats hanging out in a hotel lobby.

You’ve heard people talk about open and relational theology and want an accessible way into the ideas.

You know exactly why you’re here.

• New language for ideas and experiences you may have felt for years but never had words for.
• Fresh ways of thinking about God, suffering, freedom, love, prayer, science, and the future.
• Practical insights for preaching, spiritual formation, creativity, activism, and community.
• Conversations and relationships with people asking many of the same questions you are.
• The knowledge that you’re not alone in what you think, doubt, and are reaching toward, and that a theology built on uncontrolling love has room for all of it.
• A relational head start to Theology Beer Camp - a chance to meet people, settle in, and begin building connections before the larger gathering begins.
• The kind of conversations that make walking into TBC feel less like arriving at a conference and more like rejoining friends you’ve already started getting to know.

Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $99