{"id":54236,"date":"2016-05-01T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/milwaukee_js_bible_and_a_brew_groups_get_together_to_talk_faith_over_a_pint\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:06:08","slug":"milwaukee_js_bible_and_a_brew_groups_get_together_to_talk_faith_over_a_pint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54236","title":{"rendered":"(Milwaukee JS) Bible and a brew: Groups get together to talk faith over a pint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big screen at Bernie&#8217;s Tap Room in Waukesha flickers with a baseball game between Texas Christian University and Dallas Baptist. The players are nearly life-size.<\/p>\n<p>But the action on-screen is lost to the 15 people seated at two long tables in front of the game. They are deep in conversation about Jesus, church and life, stopping occasionally for a sip from the pint glass at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus + Beer is in session.<\/p>\n<p>In and near Milwaukee, some people are getting a little faith with their froth. Assemblages like Jesus + Beer are part of a national trend of groups combining Bible study with elbow-bending. Sometimes, it&#8217;s just easier to talk religion over a beer, one pastor said. It&#8217;s also an idea that goes back to Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/entertainment\/beer\/bible-and-a-brew-groups-get-together-to-talk-faith-over-a-pint-b99711177z1-377294401.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big screen at Bernie&#8217;s Tap Room in Waukesha flickers with a baseball game between Texas Christian University and Dallas Baptist. The players are nearly life-size. But the action on-screen is lost to the 15 people seated at two long<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54236\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,90,174,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-alcoholdrinking","category-apologetics","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}