“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.” - John Muir, The Yosemite
Season 2 of Beauty As Well As Bread is here. Over the next 9 months, I'll be hosting the second series of nights at St. Mark's Church in Austin called “Beauty As Well As Bread."
The first season reminded us how meaningful it can be to make space for beauty—not as something separate from everyday life, but as something that helps us see, receive, and love the world around us. Made possible again by support from St. Mark's Austin, The Creative Arts Collective, and yours truly, we are so grateful to continue these experiments in attention together via song, poetry, stillness, reflection, lecture, and visual art.
And this season, we’re opening the table wider. We’re excited for a new set of collaborators, voices, and artists - from fellow songwriters to painters, scholars, priests, poets, and writers - who will bring their own stories, questions, and ways of seeing to Beauty As Well As Bread.
I hope to see you there,
-Jon Guerra, August 2026
Beauty As Well As Bread
September 1 | Gathering #10
Fall Calendar
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Gathering #10
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Gathering #11
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Gathering #12
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Gathering #13
JON GUERRA is a singer-songwriter & producer who creates Devotional Music — less Sunday morning worship music, and more Monday morning prayer music.
Jon's debut Devotional Music album was Keeper of Days (2020), followed by Ordinary Ways (2023), and most recently Jesus (2025). Jon has also composed music for film (Terrence Malick's "A Hidden Life," 2019).
Jon collaborates with a wide variety of artists, tours regularly, is building a community around Devotional Music, and resides in Austin, TX.
Beauty As Well As Bread
Made possible by the Artist-in-Context program
from the Creative Arts Collective for Christian Life & Faith
and by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church