2025 Water Advance: March 7-8, 2025

Where: The Salish Seaside Escapes

327 Sunset Avenue
Eastsound, WA 98245

Cost: $500 per person or $950 per couple.

This fee includes 6 meals for the 2 days. You are responsible for your own lodging.

Speaker: Dr. Leah Payne

Leah Payne is an award-winning author, podcaster, and Associate Professor of American Religious History at Portland Seminary. She holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and her research explores the intersection of religion, politics, and popular culture. Payne is author of God Gave Rock & Roll to You: a History of Contemporary Christian Music (Oxford University Press, 2024), the 2024 Christianity Today book of the year for History and Biography, and co-host of Rock That Doesn’t Roll, a Public Radio Exchange (PRX) podcast about Christian rock and its listeners. She also hosts Spirit & Power, an Axis Mundi Media podcast about politics and Pentecostal and charismatic Christians, and is co-creator of Weird Religion, a religion and pop culture podcast. Her writing and research has appeared in The Washington PostNBC NewsReligion News ServiceHarper’s MagazineThe Economist, and Christianity Today.

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