Square Halo Books at The Trust Performing Arts Center, Lancaster Bible College’s arts and culture venue in downtown Lancaster, Pa., will present its sixth annual conference focusing on creativity, collaboration and community on March 7-8, 2025.

This year’s keynote speaker will be Diana Pavlac Glyer, editor of Square Halo’s “A Compass for Deep Heaven” and author of the upcoming “Clay in the Potter’s Hands,” while the conference’s Saturday night concert will feature Thomas Austin and Skye Peterson.

Matthew Dickerson, author of Square Halo’s book, “Aslan’s Breath: Seeing the Holy Spirit in Narnia,” the 2024 keynote speaker and a 2025 breakout session leader, said of the event: “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.”

LBC Associate Registrar and singer-songwriter Matt Wheeler will be part of two breakout sessions titled on the collaborative musical process at the upcoming Square Halo Conference.

Additionally, Lancaster Bible College Associate Registrar and singer-songwriter Matt Wheeler will be part of two breakout sessions titled “Songwriting Together: Modeling the Product of a Collaborative Musical Experience,” along with musicians Matthew Clark and Dan Burkholder. This two-part exploration of creating music in collaboration will not only focus on the collaborative songwriting process but also introduce a new song the trio wrote together for the 2025 Square Halo Conference. In the second session, participants will apply their principles of collaboration in a real-time workshop environment.

Early conference registration opens at 9 a.m. Friday, March 7 and regular registration opens at noon the same day. Conference highlights over the two-day event include the following:

Friday, March 7:

• 10 a.m. – Early Breakout Sessions
• 11 a.m. – Early Premier Performance: Prince of Preachers, a new one-man play about fame, criticism and depression, seen through the lens of the life and ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
• 1 p.m. – Opening Session: How Then Should We Play | Katy Bowser Hutson
• 2:30 p.m. – Breakout Session I
• 3:30 p.m. – Breakout Session II
• 4:30 p.m. – Dinner (on your own at local restaurants).
• 7 p.m. – The Row House: Lost and Found | Diana Pavlac Glyer

Saturday, March 8:

• 8 a.m. – Breakfast (Continental Breakfast or Goodness Tea Party | Elizabeth Wickland)
• 9 a.m. – Opening Lecture: Pulled and Shaped | Diana Pavlac Glyer
• 10:30 a.m. – Breakout Session III
• 11:30 a.m. – Lunch (boxed lunches or on your own at local restaurants)
• 1 p.m. – Afternoon Lecture: Walk Together Children: The Risk and Reward of Collaborative Creation in African American Spirituals | Ruth Naomi Floyd
• 2:15 p.m. – Breakout Session IV
• 3:30 p.m. – Afternoon Activities (printmaking, discussion groups and fun stuff)
• 4:30 p.m. – Dinner (on your own at local restaurants)
• 6:30 p.m. – Closing Lecture: Tested and Tried | Diana Pavlac Glyer
• 7:30 p.m. – Concert | Skye Peterson and Thomas Austin

Tickets for the conference, as well as information on local lodging, may be found at squarehalobooks.com/2025-conference.