Theology Beer Camp 2025
Join The Seattle School as we sponsor Theology Beer Camp, a unique three-day conference that brings together theology nerds and craft beer for a blend of intellectual engagement, community building, and fun. Organized by Homebrewed Christianity, this event features a lineup of well-known podcasters, scholars, and theology enthusiasts who come together to “nerd out” on theological topics while enjoying loads of fun activities. Our Seattle School faculty will be leading multiple sessions at the conference!
Dr. Paul Hoard, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology, and Dr. Dwight Friesen, Professor of Practical Theology, will be leading a pre-day event in partnership with friends of The Seattle School, Billie Hoard and Tamice Spencer-Helms.
Learn more and register for our pre-day session: What if There is More? Queerness, Fugitivity, and Finding Sanctuary in Unsettling Times.
You can also register for the whole conference to hear from our faculty and other theologians that we love including Kelly Brown Douglas, Reggie Williams, Andy Root, Roberto Che Espinoza, and Pete Enns. We can’t wait!
If you’d like to meet up with a Seattle School representative during the conference or while we are in town, please send an email to Lauren Peiser, lpeiser@theseattleschoool.edu, Director of Partnerships, who will be at the conference!
About Paul Hoard
Paul Hoard is a licensed counselor and associate professor of counseling psychology at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. He completed the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. A “third culture kid,” he was raised in Ankara, Turkey, and has provided mental health counseling and clinical supervision in the United States, Ukraine, and Turkey. His research and scholarly work primarily focus on the intersection of perpetration trauma, eucontamination, white-body supremacy, games, and psychoanalytic theory.
About Dwight Friesen
Dwight J. Friesen [he . they] is Professor of Practical Theology at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology where his research and teaching focus on discovering, learning with, and training leaders for the “church” emerging after Christendom. He is a founding board member of Parish Collective with its Inhabit Conference, and works internationally with the Urban Shalom Society in service of UN-Habitat; mobilizing the world’s religions to engage the United Nations “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) as faithful expressions of their respective faith and cultural traditions. Dwight is author and contributor to a number of books, including: 2020s Foresight, The New Parish, and Thy Kingdom Connected.