We are excited to announce our 2025 Retreat: Sacred Space – Lessons from Museum Architecture

Save the Dates: Thursday, June 12, through Sunday, June 15, 2025

What can secular architecture teach the church about telling our story?

It has become a commonplace observation that the Museum has replaced the Church as sacred space in the modern world, and that visitors to museums behave as reverently in those spaces as earlier generations did in their sanctuaries. What might we learn from those secular spaces, especially from those buildings whose purpose is to embody (as do our sanctuaries) a particular group’s story? We will explore two such museums in on The National Mall in Washington DC: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian.

We will have ample free time to explore the Many other museums on the National Mall and the opportunity for an optional tour of the National Cathedral with Jay Hall Carpenter, as well as Conduct ACLS business.

Stay tuned for more information!