The Rabbit Room

April 2019 

The Rabbit Room 

“The Rabbit Room.” The Rabbit Room, rabbitroom.com/.

When singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson took a pilgrimage to Oxford in England it would change his life. Native to the relatively young city of Nashville, Tennessee, he was deeply impacted by the history surrounding him and began seeing that culture requires community in order to flourish. A visit to the back room of “The Eagle and Child” pub inspired the name of his now flourishing online community: “The Rabbit Room.” Those familiar with “The Eagle and Child” will know that it was the meeting place of the famous literary group the Inklings, the room in which they met every week was known as “The Rabbit Room.”

 Peterson’s lessons from Oxford led him to start a website for Christian artists to come together. After several years and a great deal of success, this site has grown into a publishing company, a yearly conference, and a monthly meeting of musicians, all while maintaining their online format. The site is filled to the brim with fascinating blogs and articles. It houses poetry, a podcast network and a store that supports the artists in Rabbit Room community. I can’t think of a place that is more deeply nestled in the intersection of faith and art than “The Rabbit Room.  Faith based artists constantly working on the restorative act of creation in a flourishing community.