Another phenomenal conference is in the books, and this one brimmed with laughs, profundity, life-changing fried rice w/bacon, and the best (and only) church puppet show we’ve ever seen. Can confirm: the Midwest is as nice as everyone says it is — and not just because it isn’t winter yet!
A big THANK YOU to St. Michael’s Lutheran, Ryan Alvey, Joey Goodall, Juliette Alvey, and all the volunteers, speakers, musicians, and tech crew. And a special thanks to Mark Koschmann and our friends at Concordia University, St. Paul, for their invaluable help.
As always, all the talks below are free to stream and download, but we would greatly appreciate if you could chip in a donation to help defray the costs from the weekend. Conferences aren’t cheap to put together, and we definitely don’t make money off of them.
To donate, click here.
[And FYI! — registration for the 20th Annual NYC Conference (April 15–17, 2027) is open at an early-bird registration discount. You really, really, won’t want to miss it.]
Andrew Root — “Young People and a Church of Consolation: Evangelism in an Age of Despair”
Gretchen Ronnevik — “Sandwiched Between Crises: The Fusion of Grace and Truth in Midlife”
Paul Zahl — “Grace for Children, Grace for their Parents, and Grace for Retired Old Men!”
Andrew Root & Tony Robinson in Conversation
Grace Leuenberger — “Qualifying the Unqualified: Grace in Young Adulthood”
Tony Robinson — “Grace for the Sometimes/Frequently/How About ‘Always?’ Challenging Relationships Between Adult Children and Parents?”
Joey Goodall — “Kids Don’t Follow”
Melina Smith — “Faith Begins With Play: Enchanting the Next Generation”
Mark Koschmann — “Most Simple, Most Ordinary, Most Terrible: Grace for Ivan Ilyich and the Rest of Us”
Manuela Thames — “Multiple Exposures: Finding Grace Amidst the Noise of a Layered Life”
