Exploring the Interconnection of Theology and Life
The Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia is a research community, whose mission is to study the social consequences of theological ideas for the sake of a more just and compassionate world.
Check out our collection of published works and other resources on lived theology.
Doing Local History in the Culture Wars
By Peter Slade
I have had a ringside seat as our culture war burned over Ashland, Ohio: a small college town that has long claimed to be the “World HQ of Nice People.” For 18 years, I have watched the town’s institutions–the Library and School Board, the City Council, the University, the Press, and churches– twist, turn, and some even break. I have spent my academic life studying Christians and churches in desperately divisive and morally demanding situations; now, I find myself in just such a situation. What, I have been wondering, does it mean to live faithfully and wisely in these times?
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People Get Ready
Twelve Christian Misfits, Malcontents, and Dreamers. A collection of succinct and evocative biographies of twelve modern apostles who unsettle what we think we know about religion’s role in American reform movements.
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God’s Long Summer – New Princeton Classic
Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when the lives of activists on all sides of the civil rights issue converged and their images of God clashed.