Square Halo 23: Ordinary Saints

February 17–18, 2024

Our conference this year celebrated Square Halo’s 25th year publishing “extraordinary books for ordinary saints.” Our keynote speaker was Malcolm Guite author of Lifting the Veil. Friday night’s featured speaker was Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt and our concert performance was by The Arcadian Wild.

Other contributors:

Tom Becker
—Thinking Ahead Already! Making This Conference Stick In Your Own Hometown.
—The Elegant Bridge of Humanity

Carey Bustard and Joy Strawbridge
—A Book is a Classroom: The Theology of Picture Books

Bonnie Bosso
—Round Table reading of Babette’s Feast
Carolyn Givens
—Are We Starting a Publishing Company? A Journey of Creative Collaboration
A.D. Bauer and Diana DiPasquale
—Surprising Texts and Surprising Grace

Shanika Churchville
—Ordinary Scholars: Justice in the Writing Classroom

Amy Knorr
—Can We Have Creative Christian Community Online?

Christine Perrin and Jessica Zubrod
—Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

Christie Purifoy
—Saint Hunca Munca: Placemaking, Dolls’ Houses, and the Literature of Tiny Things

Geoffrey Reiter
—Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor: Ordinary Puritan Poets and Saints

Lisa Smith
—Chasing Table Scraps: How to Engage Creatively with a God Who Loves Us

—Friends Don’t Let Friends Miss Revival: George Whitefield on Making Friends and Creating Community

Shawn and Maile Smucker
—Stories Between Us

Daniel Spanjer
—An Advent for Shepherds and Wisemen: The Radical Logic of Christ’s Coming

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
—Rupture as Invitation: The Generosity of Contemporary Art and Is it STILL Good? It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God Two Decades Years Later