Prepare for glad tidings! Housemoot 2026 is on the way!
What is Housemoot?
Housemoot is a self-hosted gathering designed to help you bring people together in your own home and community. It’s not just something you attend; it’s something you build. We provide the sessions, music, poetry, art, and resources; you gather the people and shape the experience where you are.
The goal isn’t to fill your screen with content but to catalyze community—around shared meals, thoughtful conversation, and real connection.
What's Included?
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Gathering Guide (a collection of articles, interviews, and thoughtful tips to enrich your experience)
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Recipes (collectible recipe cards so you can treat your guests–and yourself!–to favorite dishes from North Wind Manor)
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Sample Itineraries (versatile schedule templates for planning and organizing your gathering)
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Discussion Guides (thought-provoking questions contributed by the Housemoot speakers to reflect on the sessions and spark conversations with your guests)
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Artist Interludes (enjoy recorded performances by favorite musicians and vocalists)
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Broader Community (ticket holders will gain access to an exclusive online network that will connect hosts with their conference content, hosting resources, and each other)
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Graphics & Artwork (custom Housemoot art you can use to announce your gathering and decorate your space)
How Do I Join?
Stay tuned! Ticket info is coming soon!
What is included with your ticket?
This bundle of resources is your catalyst: a feast of thoughtful resources meant to inspire, challenge, delight, and equip you as you gather with others.
To make it as simple as possible, we’re sending you off with a suitcase full of tools to help your gathering take shape with ease and joy.
Gathering Guide
The Gathering Guide offers practical advice on preparing your Housemoot gathering, including tips on hospitality, scheduling, and creating a welcoming atmosphere. It also provides access to the sessions, recipes, articles, artistic interludes, and more.
Housemoot Featured Artist:
Emily Verdoorn
We're honored to feature the work of our commissioned Housemoot artist, Emily Verdoorn! Emily's graceful and intricate artwork appears throughout this year's Gathering Guide as well as on the collectible North Wind Manor recipe cards in this year's Mootkit.
Emily describes her process in this way: "My drawings come from time spent observing the seasons and liturgies of places and spaces and the natural world around me. For me, making is a process of listening and observing; a quiet conversation seeking the mundane glory in the everyday."
Don't Forget Your Mootkit!
That's right: Mootkits are back, and all new for 2026!
Our hope is that this box, and the contents therein, will be a blessing to you and help you welcome your guests well. May it inspire laughter, creativity, and memorable mootish moments.
To buy a Mootkit, select it when you buy your Housemoot ticket on Universe.com.
NOTE: Mootkits are limited-quantity and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Housemoot 2026
Sessions & Speakers
ANDREW PETERSON
SINGER/SONGWRITER, AUTHOR, AND RABBIT ROOM FOUNDER
Scratching the Creative Itch: Delight, Curiosity, and the Myth of the Renaissance Man
The idea of the Renaissance man (or woman) looms large in the imagination, as a sort of pinnacle of creative genius. While there's some truth to the classic understanding of the ideal, Andrew (who would like to make clear that while he is multidisciplinary, he's nowhere near a genius!) explores the pitfalls of the polymath and suggests a better path.
RUTH NAOMI FLOYD
VOCALIST AND COMPOSER
Redemptive Beauty: The Lament and Protest of Rizpah
Situated within the narrative of 2 Samuel, Rizpah emerges as a woman who refuses to remain silent in the face of violence and injustice. Through her sustained vigil over the bodies of her sons, she transforms personal grief into public protest—challenging systems of power and calling attention to the dignity of the forgotten. Drawing from theological reflection, historical context, and artistic interpretation, this lecture examines how Rizpah's act of lament becomes a form of sacred resistance. Her story invites us to consider how beauty can emerge not in spite of suffering, but through it—offering a redemptive vision that honors truth, memory, and human dignity. Rizpah's witness compels us to confront hidden histories, to listen more closely to marginalized voices, and to reimagine lament as a transformative force that can give rise to healing and collective renewal.
JOHN HENDRIX
ILLUSTRATOR, AUTHOR, AND MFA DIRECTOR
A Life Spent Making Things: Joys (and Pitfalls) of Choosing to Make Art
Making art is hard. More often than not, it feels like good work does not want to exist. Not only must you fight for your art to come into being, but also, the creative work itself is often underappreciated and undervalued. There is no trope more annoying and lazy to aspiring makers than the phrase “starving artist.” But, if we’re honest, it touches a real nerve. What are the real rewards for choosing to make art? In this talk, John will discuss the notion of decoupling the act of artmaking from commerce and capitalism, the temptations of ambition, and the collision of both career and calling in us as art makers. Ultimately, our discussion will highlight and remind us of why we were created, and why making art (with or without doing so as a full-time career) is valuable to yourself, to your community, and to all of humanity.
DAVID KIM
FOUNDER OF GOLDENWOOD
How Small Creative Communities Bring About Unexpected Change
As so many feel isolated and cultural institutions feel increasingly fragile, how can small communities become seeds of renewal? Drawing from ecological models and lived experiments within the arts, this talk explores the power of "islands of nucleated diversity." These small, spiritually rooted creative communities cultivate imagination, protect creative growth, and organically connect into a wider ecosystem of renewal.
SARAH CROWLEY CHESTNUT
POET AND L'ABRI WORKER
Calling, Distraction, Hard Task, Sabbath: Wrestling with Vocation with the Help of Poets
What is calling, and what does it mean to follow an artistic calling when it is not our primary occupation? How do we deal well with the many tensions a multi-vocational life creates? To more deeply reflect on a Christian understanding of vocation, Sarah will help us inhabit one of Wendell Berry's sabbath poems, reflecting on these four words: calling, distraction, hard task, sabbath.
ELISSA YUKIKO WEICHBRODT
AUTHOR AND PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY
The Art of Attentiveness: Close Looking in an Age of Infinite Scrolling
In our contemporary algorithm-driven and largely digital reality, we are catechized to make snap judgments with barely a glance. But art provides us with the opportunity to develop a countercultural practice of close and sustained looking. This, in turn, can help us engage more purposefully with our world and our neighbors in love. This talk introduces practices of close looking that can be used in both a museum context and our daily lives.
ZACH ESWINE
PASTOR, AUTHOR, AND SPEAKER
The Wonder of Elfland: How G.K. Chesterton Helps Us Diagnose What Deadens and Enlivens Our Imagination
Many of us long to behold invisible wonders. But what would it be like to behold visible wonders? The wonders right in front of us? Chesterton teaches us to see again and by seeing, to hum again with delight.
BETH BARCUS
CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF PORTER'S CALL
Creativity, Connection, and the Community Our Souls Need
Beth Barcus invites everyone in the creative ecosystem—creators, conduits, and consumers alike—to explore how creativity, connection, and community are woven together in the relational garden our souls need. Beth explores the beauty of finding your people and cultivating relationships where the good, the true, and the beautiful can take root and flourish. Beth will seek to engage your imagination for a more connected, life-giving creative community where no one has to create or live in a silo.
Sponsorships
Housemoot sponsors share our vision for building community by drawing people together around art, music, story, and the gospel. When you or your organization supports Housemoot, you join The Rabbit Room in welcoming friends from near and far to experience this unique event. Community is made up not only of individuals, but also of like-minded organizations, businesses, and institutions with the aim of ushering in the Kingdom.
We are delighted to partner with you for Housemoot 2026. Sponsorships are available in a variety of forms and can be adjusted to meet your business needs.
Interested? Please contact Sarah Katherine Woodhull, Director of Development, at sarahkatherine@rabbitroom.com.
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