Doxology
Oct 6 - 8, 2025 / Holland, MI
a Gathering where we humbly fix our attention and our hope on God.
Doxology is a posture of wonder, gratitude, and awe. Doxology is how we fix our heart and hope on God. In a cacophonous age overrun by ego and animosity, we hope to nurture humility, joy, contemplation–and even a bit of holy belligerence–amid all the dehumanizing forces suffocating the delight of being God’s beloved people in God’s astounding world. Since our time together will be about God, this means our days will of course also be about beauty, faithfulness, and friendship.
Doxology is a gathering for pastors and artists, for carpenters and teachers, business owners and stay-at-home parents (for all of us), who long for the simple, sacred life that flows from the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
To honor our intentions for relational connection and a contemplative pace, space will be limited.
Early
Registration
Jan 15 - Jan 30
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Student $99
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General $199
Standard Registration
Jan 31 - July 08
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Student $139
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General $239
Final
Registration
July 09 - Sept 29
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Student $179
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General $279
Monday, Oct 6 | Day 1
2:00 – 3:00 | Optional Prelude Workshop
2:30 – 4:00 | Name Tag Check in
4:00 | Welcome & Worship
4:15 | Opening Reflection
4:30 | Plenary Session
5:30 | BBQ Feast
7:00 | Break
7:30 | An Evening of Music w/ Jon Guerra
Tuesday, Oct 7 | Day 2
7:15 – 8:45 | Coffee Truck
8:00 – 8:20 | Morning Office
8:30 | Break
9:00 | Worship & Plenary Session
10:00 | Break
10:30 | Worship & Plenary Session
11:15 | Speakers in Conversation
12:00 | Lunch
Optional RSVP Lunches with our Speakers
1:30-2:30 | Workshops 1
2:30 | Break
3:00-4:00 | Workshops 2
Other options: Holy Naps, Pub/Coffee Chats, Self Guided Walks, Excursion to Holland State Park
5:30 | Dinner
Optional RSVP Dinners with our Speakers
7:00 | Break
7:30 | An Evening with Marilynne Robinson
9:00 | Dessert
Wednesday, Oct 8 | Day 3
7:15 – 8:45 | Coffee Truck
8:00 – 8:20 | Morning Office
8:30 | Break
9:00 | Worship & Plenary Session
10:00 | Break
10:15 | Worship & Conversation
11:00 | Ending & Blessing
+View our FAQ or stay tuned for upcoming emails for more information on reserving a spot for lunch/dinner with one of our teachers, Tuesday afternoon workshop options and other activities.
Meet our
2025 Speakers
Marilynne robinson
Marilynne Robinson is a novelist and essayist and served for 25 years as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Price for Fiction, the National Humanities Medal, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Her novels include Gilead, Home, Lila, Jack, and Housekeeping. Robinson has written numerous nonfiction works, including her recent Reading Genesis.
Marilynne’s Prayer for Doxology:
As you, God, are giving the rays of the sun to light this world for the purposes of our bodily life, so enlighten our minds by the radiance of your Spirit, the One who will guide us in the way of your righteousness. To whatever purpose we apply our mind, may the only end be your honor and service. May we expect all happiness from your grace and goodness only. Keep us from attempting anything that is not pleasing to you. Amen. (adapted from John Calvin’s morning prayer)
Chris green
Chris Green is Professor of Public Theology at Southeastern University (Lakeland, FL), Bishop of the Diocese of St Anthony (CEEC), and Director for St Anthony Institute of Theology, Philosophy, and Liturgics. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including most recently All Things Beautiful: An Aesthetic Christology. Chris and his wife, Julie, live in Cleveland, TN with their sons Clive and Emery, and their Weimaraner, Auggie. Their oldest, Zoë, is currently attending the University of Oklahoma.
Chris’s Prayer for Doxology:
O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; and grant to them even now glimpses of your beauty, and make them worthy at length to behold it unveiled for evermore; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (from the BCP)
Photographer & artist
Asher Imtiaz
Asher Imtiaz was born in Pakistan to a family belonging to a small religious minority and moved to the American Midwest in 2012. His photography-based work, informed by this immigrant story, focuses on minorities and people living under societal pressure. Asher aims to give those whom we consider as “other” a voice. Asher’s early work documents the religious minority groups of his home country. Since 2016, Asher has focused on developing relationships with recent refugees and asylum seekers, building trust that leads to creating intimate portraits. Initially starting in Milwaukee, his work now extends across the country.
music & artistry
Jon Guerra
Jon Guerra is a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter living in Austin. With a penchant for thought-provoking lyrics, innovative instrumentation, and pleading vocals regularly wrapped around an entrancing, worshipful undercurrent, Jon Guerra has recorded four albums and composed music for Terrence Malick’s 2019 film A Hidden Life. While diligently studying Bob Dylan, Rich Mullins, Sufjan Stevens, and Rufus Wainwright — along with poets Emily Dickinson and George Herbert — Jon essentially spent his entire artistic journey switching between local band and solo life.
