What does it mean to belong to a place—and to be shaped by it? In this retreat, Lydia Sohn and Jennifer Allen Craft will invite us to explore a theology of place that is attentive, imaginative, and grounded in lived experience.
In a time when many feel unmoored—longing for deeper community, grieving the home they thought they would have, or wondering how to begin again, we will gently engage the questions we carry: How do we build connection when it feels so elusive? How do we commit to a place in an age of hyper-mobility? Is it okay to desire a new place or a different life? How do we discern wisely whether to stay or go?
Together, we will consider how home is not only something we find, but something we build—holding the tension of belonging and displacement, rootedness and restlessness, stability and change. Finally, we will explore what it might look like to deepen our roots in ourselves, in God, on our land, and with one another.