If you are a young adult interested in learning about and discussing issues involving Christian faith, in a casual relaxed atmosphere, then Theology on Tap is for you!

This exciting program, sponsored by The Church of the Advent on Beacon Hill in Boston, will be serving challenging ideas from phenomenal speakers to people in their twenties and thirties, both singles and couples.

In our next series, we look at “Theology through the Arts” with sessions on

• September 1st

  Theology through the Visual Arts

  Ms. Bethany Farrell

  How does art speak to the theological tenants of societies? How did art sneak into the Christian faith? Is “christian art” an oxymoron? In this lecture we will look at major sea changes in the 2,000 year relationship of art and theology as well as our inheritance of these moments today.

  Bethany Farrell works for Christians in the Visual Arts and is a painter and choreographer living in Boston. (And a proud parishioner of the Church of the Advent.) She attended Boston University where she studied Art History concentrating in Medieval and Baroque Art. Prior to her position with CIVA she had worked as the tour manager of a historic landmark and at the auction house—Skinner, Boston. Bethany spends the rest of her time getting lost in Boston, running the church school at the Advent, and on her eternal quest to visit every house museum she can.

  September 8th

  Theology through Poetry

  Dr. Stephen Teichgraeber

  Dr. Teichgraeber will focus his presentation on the Romantic poets, particularly Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, a meditation on nature leading to some astonishing mystical experiences allowing him to conclude that love of nature leads to love of man, a major stepping stone towards his later Christian belief enunciated in his Immortatity Ode. He will conclude with a discussion of Lord Byron's The Vision of Judgment, a delightful narrative depicting HOW King George III manages to enter Heaven.

  B Mus, Kansas City Conservatory (now Univ. of Missouri), AB, Rockhurst College (Kansas City, MO), MA, Rice University (Houston Texas), PhD, Rice University, Post - Doc, 8 terms, Cambridge University (St Edmund's College) (UK).

  Asst. Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester.

  Chairman, Dept. of English, Concord Academy, recently retired.

  September 15th

  Theology through Architecture

  Mr. Vance Hosford

  Vance will talk about the nature of architecture as a “representative” art. He will highlight the development of the “narrative” Gothic tradition in architecture created for the church in Europe and England and then consider the dilemma of Modernism; what was lost and what might be the future of architecture for the church.

  Vance Hosford got his BA in cinema at UCLA and a Masters in Architecture at UC Berkeley. He came to Boston and year after college and was a partner at Payette Associates Architects and Planners in Boston. He started his own practice in Vermont concentrating on residential design in 2001. He has a avid interest in ecclesiology and music. He is a devoted parishioner at the Church of the Advent.

  September 22nd

  Theology through Music

  Dr. Jason Grant

The series will take place Tuesdays (September 1, 8, 15, 22), 7 PM, at M. J. O'Connor's Irish Pub, 27 Columbus Avenue (in the Boston Park Plaza Hotel), Boston. Oh and it's free!

Eat good food, drink great beer, meet excellent people, think deep thoughts. What more could you ask for on a Tuesday night? Invite anyone that might be interested and hope to see you there!

If you would like any more information please contact us.