Featured Artists
Visual Artist and Writer—Painter and writer Andrew Hendrixson works in oil, stitched fabric, and found objects to give shape to longing and unspoken prayer.
Andrew Hendrixson
Andrew Hendrixson is an artist and writer whose work moves between oil on canvas, hand-stitched remnant fabric, and assembled found objects. He believes different questions need different ways of working. He holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Florida and an MA in Religion and the Arts from Yale University. He is also a doctoral student at Duke Divinity School. He has been an artist-in-residence at the University of Dayton, the Springfield Museum of Art, the Byrdcliffe Colony, and the Chautauqua Institution. His survey exhibition at Duke, Unspoken Requests, takes its title from the tent revivals of his childhood. His writing and art have appeared in Image, New American Paintings, Princeton Theological Review, and Best American Essays 2021.
Writer and Scholar—A scholar of literature and media, Jeffrey Bilbro asks how Christians can pay attention to the news, to technology, and to their neighbors with love.
Jeffrey Bilbro
Jeffrey Bilbro is a professor of English at Grove City College and editor-in-chief of Front Porch Republic, a publication about place, limits, and liberty. His books include Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News, which won a 2022 Christianity Today Book Award. He also wrote Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope, Loving God's Wildness, and Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms. He co-edited The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education (2023). He grew up in Washington, earned his B.A. at George Fox University, and holds a Ph.D. from Baylor University.
Links: jeffbilbro.com, Front Porch Republic
Singer-Songwriter—Seattle songwriter Joe Day makes room for spiritual outsiders: people living with belief, doubt, and everything in between.
Joe Day
Joe Day is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter whose music is rooted in introspection, personal reckoning, and spiritual unrest. From 1999 to 2006 he fronted the band Mindhead, moving between rock venues and Sunday-morning worship. His 2021 album Halflight speaks for people who feel abandoned by a faith they once called home, offering both lament and possibility. His earlier releases include Grace (2010) and the Fear and Love EP (2023). In late 2023 he formed Joe Day & The Coyotes with Erin Spiegel (violin), Brian Ward (guitar), Jordan Peifer (bass), and Dan Folgado (drums). Their new record, Wilderness, is due in early 2027.
Links: joeday.music, Bandcamp, Newsletter
Singer-Songwriter—Anacortes songwriter John Van Deusen makes "sacred music": worship filtered through raw, hook-filled indie rock.
John Van Deusen
John Van Deusen is a songwriter from Anacortes, Washington, known for emotionally honest, hook-filled indie rock. He fronted the NPR-acclaimed band The Lonely Forest from 2005 to 2014. As a solo artist he released the four-part (I Am) Origami series on Tooth & Nail Records. The Gospel Coalition named Every Power Wide Awake (2017) one of the best Christian albums of the 2010s and Marathon Daze (2022) its top album of that year. His newest work is As Long As I Am In The Tent Of This Body I Will Make A Joyful Noise (Anotherland, 2026), a 38-track double album of exploratory worship music. He also plays in Telephone Friends. He lives in Anacortes with his wife and two children.
Links: Bandcamp, The Gospel Coalition profile
Founder of Adoration House—Millie Voigtlander founded Adoration House, the University District house of prayer where Resonance gathers.
Millie Voigtlander
Millie Voigtlander is the founder of Adoration House, a house of worship and prayer in Seattle's University District and the host venue for Resonance. In 2012 she had a vision of the Holy Spirit blowing like a foggy wind through Seattle, and she has prayed for the city ever since. Before moving to Washington, she spent five years with Youth With A Mission. There she led Discipleship Training Schools and staff teams in Montana and overseas. In 2021 she began gathering people across Seattle to pray, and that work became Adoration House. Her hope for the city centers on healing and reconciliation.
Poet, Translator, Scholar—Poet and essayist Mischa Willett is best known for remaking the elegy for modern readers.
Mischa Willett
Mischa Willett is a poet, essayist, translator, and scholar, best known for his work in the poetic elegy. His books include Phases (2017), The Elegy Beta (2020), and This Gift Card Has Already Been Redeemed (2026). He also edited a critical edition of Philip James Bailey's Festus, part of his longtime championing of the Victorian Spasmodic poets. His poems, essays, and translations appear in journals and magazines internationally. His essays range from Native American spirituality to the theology of action movies. He earned his MFA at the University of Washington and directs the Whitworth Writers Workshop.
Links: mischawillett.com
Poet and Editor—Dominican-born poet Rosa LÃa Gilbert writes in English and Spanish about home, longing, and belonging.
Rosa LÃa Gilbert
Rosa LÃa Gilbert is a poet, translator, and editor. She was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. Spanish is her first language, but it was learning English that made her fall in love with words. Her debut collection, Under the Samán Tree: Poems on Home, Longing, and Belonging (The Way Back Books, 2025), is bilingual. She is the Spanish poetry translator and assistant editor for Vessels of Light Literary Journal. She was a fellow in Christianity Today's Young Storytellers Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in America Magazine, Fare Forward, Ekstasis, and Clayjar Review. She lives in Washington with her husband and daughter and writes the newsletter In Light of Eternity.
Links: rosaliagilbert.com, In Light of Eternity on Substack, Instagram
Writer and Cultural Commentator—A Seattle writer, Sara Billups writes for Christians looking around the American church and wondering where Jesus is.
Sara Billups
Sara Billups is a Seattle-based writer and cultural commentator. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Christianity Today, Aspen Ideas, and the BBC. Her first book, Orphaned Believers (Baker Books, 2023), is part spiritual memoir and part commentary on growing up evangelical during the culture wars. It follows a generation of Christian exiles finding their way home. Her second book, Nervous Systems (2025), is a memoir about caregiving in the sandwich generation and about anxiety in the church. She holds a D.Min. from Western Seminary and writes the newsletter Bitter Scroll, about the culture shaping American Christian identity.
Visual Artist and Author—Visual liturgist Stephen Proctor uses light, projection, and landscape film to help people notice the wonder right in front of them.
Stephen Proctor
Stephen Proctor is a visual artist and visual liturgist. He works with landscape cinematography, aerial photography, and projection to create calm, immersive spaces. For about twenty years he has toured with bands and authors as a VJ and projection artist, building visual worlds for concerts and conferences around the world. He also collaborates with film composers, ambient artists, and modern classical musicians. He is the author of Wild Wonder: What Nature Teaches Us About Slowing Down and Living Well. Today he lives in a small cabin in the Columbia River Gorge outside Portland, Oregon.
Links: proktr.com, wildwonderbook.com