Square Halo 25: Clay in the Potter’s Hands

March 7-8, 2025

Our keynote speaker was Diana Pavlac Glyer, editor of Square Halo’s A Compass for Deep Heaven, and author of our forthcoming Clay in the Potter’s Hands. Our concert Saturday night featured Thomas Austin and Skye Peterson. The art exhibit was by Quay San from our book Clay in the Potter’s Hands. The theatrical experience was an original one-man show based on the life of Charles Spurgeon by Jeremiah Miller, called Prince of Preachers.

“The Square Halo conferences have offered times not only of fascinating and inspiring ideas in a high caliber of wide and varied presentations, but also of rich, meaningful interactions, dialogue, and (in a deep sense of this word) fellowship. Creativity, collaboration, and community was not merely a slogan in 2024, but an apt description of what took place.”—Matthew Dickerson

Other contributors included:

Allison Byxbe
—Why Am I Here? Orienting To the Places We Find Ourselves
Quay San
—The Shapes that Form Us: Artist Talk & Discussion
Hope Kemp
—Lighting the Creative Beacon
Katy Bowser Hutson
—How Then Should We Play?
Matthew Dickerson
—Wisdom from Middle-earth: Hope and Lament in the Life, Death, and Vocation of Gandalf
Matthew Clark, Matt Wheeler, and Dan Burkholder
—Songwriting Together: Modeling the Product of a Collaborative Musical Experience
Tom Becker
—What am I Doing with this One Wild & Precious Life? Managing Vocational Dysphoria with God’s Help 
Matthew L. Clark
—Osprey, Trout, and Printmaking
A.D. Bauer
—One of Us
Danielle Ayers Jones
—Trusting God in an Age of Anxiety: What Mothers in the Bible Teach Us About Faith
Ruth Naomi Floyd
—Walk Together Children: The Risk and Reward of Collaborative Creation in African American Spirituals
Matthew Dickerson and Matthew L. Clark
—Birds, Fish, and Wonder
Shawn Smucker and Maile Silva
—So, We Bought a Book Shop
Carey Bustard
—Square Halo Podcast