Walking and Talking With the Lord: Teleological Curation, Salvation, and the Billy Graham Library

This article offers a critical auto-ethnography of Charlotte’s extensive Billy Graham Library complex, sculpted grounds, and memorial garden. Opened in 2007 and designed as an “ongoing Crusade,” the Billy Graham Library is a notable Evangelical archive. All historical sites are wellsprings curated to convey and preserve a compelling narrative through line that encompasses the meaning of the assembled artifacts on display. The museum is also constructed to win souls to God and bring all visitors to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and, we suggest, to usher visitors to an irredentist vision of Christ’s kingdom