Spiritual Renewal & the Creative Life
Join Dn. Nicholas Kotar, Dean of the St. Basil Writers' Workshop and Acquiring Editor at Wood Between Worlds Press, at a live online summit for creatives seeking to deepen their spiritual lives through the act of creation.

Schedule for February 20th, 2026

Andrew Kern
Founder & President of The CiRCE Institute
9 am EST
The Place of the Logos in Art

Dn Seraphim Rohlin
COO of The Symbolic World Press
10 am EST
"Earth, earth on Oran's Eyes": My 5-year struggle to tell the story of the Patron Saint of Atheists

Peco Gaskovski
Author at Pilgrims in the Machine
11 am EST
Out of the Silent Heart: A Fiction Writer’s Voice

Katherine Bolger Hyde
Author, Editor, St. Basil Instructor
12:30 pm EST
Q&A with Nicholas Kotar

Michael Warren Davis
Author and Editor
1 pm EST
Hesychasm and the Imagination

Joel Miller
Chief Content Officer at Full Focus
2 pm EST
The Idea Machine

Dr Timothy Patitsas
Author and Professor
3 pm EST
Life According to the Holy Spirit

Vesper Stamper
Author and Illustrator
4 pm EST
What Is Art For, Anyway?

Austin Suggs
Podcaster at Gospel Simplicity
5 pm EST
Q&A with Dn. Nicholas about Spiritual Renewal and the Creative Life

Dn Nicholas Kotar
Author and Dean of St Basil Writers' Workshop
Summit Host