Save the Date for Restore 2026!

And join us for the Wayfare Issue 6 release party, a meditation retreat with Thomas McConkie, and an interfaith REPAIR workshop!

We are thrilled to announce that Restore 2026 will take place September 24-26 at Utah Valley University. Mark your calendars!

We can’t wait to be together again, and we have some exciting new plans in store for this year. Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to hear about updates and tickets!

And if you have suggestions for speakers, artists, or musicians, or would like to contribute or volunteer, write us at info@faithmatters.org.

Can’t wait until September? Join us in the coming months at a Wayfare release party, a meditation retreat with Thomas McConkie, and an interfaith REPAIR workshop!

FEBRUARY 6 - WAYFARE ISSUE 6 RELEASE PARTY

​To celebrate the release of Issue 6, please join us for a gathering on Friday February 6, 6pm at The Compass in downtown Provo. We’ll have freshly printed issues, readings, food, and friendship. We hope you can join us!

FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 1 - GOSPEL MEETS DHARMA MEDITATION RETREAT

Putting on the Mind of Christ and Exploring Buddha Nature Through Meditative Practice

Join Thomas McConkie and Lower Lights for a 3-day meditation retreat in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This retreat will include:

• Copious amounts of meditation!

• Mindful walking, eating, and interacting with like-hearted pilgrims

• A nourishing lunch provided each day

• Detailed instruction and lecture on Buddhist and Christian approaches to meditation

• Time in nature

• An ongoing invitation to weave yourself into a community that walks the inner path

You will love this meditation retreat if:

• You sense that the Christian tradition is more expansive than what you were taught to believe.

• You prefer soul work to Netflix, but damn if it ain’t hard doing soul work alone.

• You want to bring wisdom teachings to life through shared reading and practice

• You trust silence, nature, and community to help you heal and grow.

• You want to suck the marrow out of life. (Hat tip to Henry David Thoreau).

Thomas McConkie has been practicing in Buddhist meditation and Christian contemplation for over 25 years. He holds a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School in transformative practice and envisions a renaissance in consciousness on the Wasatch Front.

MARCH 6 - INTERFAITH REPAIR

Across the world’s faith traditions, faith leaders have long carried tools for peace. Sacred texts, rituals, histories, and lived practices offer pathways for repair—within ourselves, between communities, and across generations.

Interfaith REPAIR is a one-day gathering where participants from across faith traditions come together to explore how conflict is navigated and peace is practiced, taught, and embodied in different spiritual lineages, and how those tools can help us navigate conflict in an increasingly fractured world.

This is not a lecture-style conference. It’s an intimate, participatory, workshop-based day designed to help you engage deeply, learn across difference, and leave with tools you can use everyday in relationships at home, at work and in the world.