The 40th Anniversary
Conference
The 2025 Conference
in Pictures
Each year, readers, writers, pastors, scholars, and friends of Touchstone gather for three days of thoughtful lectures, lively discussion, worship, and fellowship. These photographs offer a glimpse of the conversations and community that make the conference a highlight of the year.
Thursday Evening Session
The Eighth Day Books bookstore is a popular gathering place before the opening session.
Fr. Wilbur Ellsworth opens with prayer and song.
Touchstone executive editor J. Douglas Johnson introduces the conference theme and first speakers—Douglas Farrow and Hans Boersma.
Douglas Farrow delivers his talk, “Minority Report: Christian Freedom in the Contest with Secularism.”
Fr. Hans Boersma continues the conversation with attendees during the evening reception.
Friday Morning Session
Paul Kingsnorth prepares for his talk, “Against the Machine.”
Jonathan Pageau delivers his talk, “This Is the Day: Remember, Celebrate, Create.”
Richard Rholin presents “Re-Enchanting Time Through Medieval Universal History.”
Paul Kingsnorth and Jonathan Pageau meet attendees and sign books during the morning break.
Break for lunch. Attendees stroll the grounds at Trinity International University, our conference home through 2025. Beginning in 2026, the conference moves to the DoubleTree by Hilton in Oak Brook, Illinois.
Friday Afternoon & Evening Sessions
Panel Discussion. Panel host C. R. Wiley leads our morning speakers in a discussion on a broad range of topics.
C. R. Wiley and Fr. Hans Boersma during the afternoon panel discussion.
Jonathan Pageau, Paul Kingsnorth, and Fr. Hans Boersma during the afternoon panel discussion.
Touchstone senior editor R. V. Young presents “Paradise Lost and the Fortunate Fall.”
Saturday Morning Session
Touchstone contributing editor Rod Dreher and speaker Fr. Hans Boersma before the morning talks.
Morning prayer and hymn singing begin the day's session.
Rod Dreher delivers his talk, “Pilgrims, not Tourists: A (Sort of) Argument for Christendom.”