Sometimes the best way to explore your thoughts and learn about topics is by gathering at a table with a trusted friend in Christ. Pub Theology & Beyond: New Options for Religious Discourse provides a background and framework to do just that through regular meetings of open-minded and open-hearted people of faith in the safe, informal environment of a pub, bar, or restaurant. Using their own long-running group as a template, the editors reveal the logistics and procedures involved in forming and running such a group, even providing a year's worth of conversation topics on life, religion, spiritual, and contemporary issues, each thoughtfully explored by the diverse perspectives of current and past pub theology group members. In this way, Pub Theology provides all you'll need to start your own group and to foster the same environment of growth and blessing that pub theology members have found so enriching for their personal walks and communities of faith.

Ted Phillips has led a pub theology group in Charlotte, North Carolina, for seven years. The group meets about fifteen times per year, and he has led and facilitated more than one hundred topical discussions.

Deborah Moore Clark is an ordained minister who worships with the Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she is active in church music ministry as a chorister, soloist, and frequent liturgist in worship.

Susan R. Furr is a professor in the Department of Counseling at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a licensed psychologist who worked in the Counseling Center at UNC Charlotte and now teaches in the Department of Counseling.