Dr. Michael Martin: is a philosopher, poet, musician, songwriter, editor, and biodynamic farmer. He spent sixteen years as a Waldorf teacher and Master Teacher, and taught at the university and college level for over seventeen years. He began biodynamic farming in 1990 and currently raises dairy goats, bees, and other animals while managing a market garden with his wife and some of his nine children. His poetry and scholarship have appeared in many journals and he is the editor of Jesus the Imagination: A Journal of Spiritual Revolution and co-host of the Regeneration podcast.
Pastor of Living Stones Church in Sacramento, CA and a social media personality with a popular YouTube channel where he hosts conversations with a wide range of people and comments on culture, theology, and philosophy. Paul is the originator of the Estuary concept and is developing Estuary communities around the world.
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
Host of The Meaning Code, a YouTube channel specializing in discussions about the intersection of science and faith. Her guests have included Ian McGilchrist, D.C. Schindler, John Vervaeke, Michael Levin, and Wolfgang Smith to name a few
"How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
What is Estuary?
If you sat down in an Estuary meeting you would see a group people meeting face to face. They are from various backgrounds discussing anything that is meaningful, interesting, and real.
It is a movement dedicated to put people together in deep conversation, to move beyond the surface level, beyond the masks. We believe these conversations to be deeply meaningful and invite people from diverse religious traditions, or no tradition at all to come and join us as we try to enter into deep encounter with each other, and through that encounter, perhaps to encounter, if ever so fleetingly, our transcendent source.
This event will combine model Estuary session with featured speakers and panel discussions.
Location - Olympia CRC
The Estuary Northwest 2024 event will be held at the Olympia Christian Reformed Church in Olympia, Washington.
Nate Hile founded the Grail Country YouTube channel where he hosts public conversations dealing with the mystical fringes of Christian theology and symbolism. Shari Suter is a Grail Country host, writer, weaver, and homesteader in British Columbia, Canada.
Nate Hile and Shari Suter are proud to host the Estuary Northwest 2024 event.
