Housemoot Chillicothe - 2023

We are opening our doors to new friends, having meals, watching/discussing lectures and watching concerts in a celebration of beauty,  art and faith.

• OPTIONAL Donations accepted to help offset food and concert costs.
• IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND ONLY THE HOUSE CONCERT on Saturday Evening - Please Register Here
• Here is our tentative schedule:
•      We will have a main track focused on Art and Artists.
•      *If there are enough people, we will add a second track of Hospitality and Community.

FRIDAY:

Introduction: - Liturgy for Feasting With Friends

Dinner: - Chicken Pot Pie

Evening Session:

• Reading Jane Austen: A Novel Approach to Virtue - Karen Swallow Prior/Charie Harder

The Trinity Forum hosted author Karen Swallow Prior for a conversation about Jane Austen, who, as Prior notes, was a “clever satirist, insightful moral philosopher, and a deeply Christian thinker." Austen offers a trove of wisdom to anyone who desires to live and love more fully and truthfully.

• *Reflection on Jesus' Meals With Sinners - Joshua Chestnut

Joshua Chestnut, staff member at the Massachusetts L'Abri, looks at Jesus' approach to hospitality and evangelism, namely, to eat a lot of meals with a wide variety of people—especially the marginalized and outcast. Seen through this lens, sharing a meal transforms from a mundane act to a powerful channel of love and grace.

• Artist Interlude - Psalm 116:  - Jess Ray, Taylor Leonhardt, Skye Peterson, Andrew Peterson

SATURDAY:

Breakfast - Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Morning Session:

• Neil Gaiman Goes to Narnia - Russel Moore

Russell Moore draws connections between C. S. Lewis and the popular fantasy writer Neil Gaiman. Though Gaiman and Lewis disagreed about the truth of Christianity, there are many ways in which Gaiman's work has been influenced by Lewis'.

• *Community as a Subversion of Modernity  - Andrew Fellows

Andrew Fellows, pastor and former L'Abri worker, describes the challenges the forces of modernity present to anyone who would engage in intentional community. Modernity, Fellows says, is the "most complete God-substitute yet created." However, the dehumanizing forces of modernity can themselves be subverted, but it takes a community to do it.

Artists Interlude:  - Jimmy Jet and His TV Set - Andrew Peterson

Lunch - Ricotta Crostini

Afternoon Session 1:

• A Theology of Blues and Belonging - Ruth Naomi Floyd

Ruth Naomi Floyd explores how the blues was birthed from the African American Spirituals, which is the root of American music. This body of music is deeply Christian in its pursuit of justice, and its lament is the ache for human dignity and belonging.

• *The Imaginal Home - Clay and Sally Clarkson

Clay and Sally Clarkson, authors and founders of Whole Heart Ministries, tell story after story of how they raised children who embodied a Christian imagination. This lecture is full of good ideas and a hopeful framework for shaping your children through the practices in your home

Artist Interlude: - Mosaics - Joshua Luke Smith - Kara Ann Marie

Artist Sharing: share what you have been creating

Afternoon Session 2:

• Artists & the Pit of Despair - Kyra Hinton, Jamin Still, John Hendrix

Artists Jamin Still and Kyra Hinton talk with illustrator, author, and educator John Hendrix about the narrative arc of every long project on their Artists & podcast.

• *The Church and the Dinner Table - John Pattison, Matt Connor

This lecture looks at one of the most impactful "ministry tools" available to any church, the humble dinner table.

Pattison and Conner paint a more comprehensive picture for what it means to be the church than simply the things that happen inside the walls of a church building on Sundays.

Dinner - Salsa Verde Soup

Evening Session:

• Cultivating a 100-year Vision - Doug McKelvey

Having the courage to make art that will bless people for generations.

• *The Beauty & Challenge of Intentional Community - Desi Maxwell, Heidi Johnston, Glenn Johnston

Three long-time community builders reflect on the struggles and opportunities of intentional community.

House Concert -  

• Rick Lee James - Thank you for visiting my site! Hear it, sing it, live it is my motto. I love to help people hear God’s word, confess God’s holiness, pray faithful prayers, sing truthful songs, and accept God’s generous invitation through music and stories.
• IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND ONLY THE HOUSE CONCERT - Please Register Here

Benediction

This is an extension of the in-person event in Nashville hosted by the christain artists collaborative called the Rabbit Room.