On December 3, 2024, Robert P. Jones joined the UVA graduate seminar Theologies of Resistance and Reconciliation by Zoom to talk about his research on the theological and historical sources of white supremacy in the United States. Read More

The Rev. Dr. Charles Robert Marsh, a Southern Baptist minister who served as senior pastor at Atlanta’s Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church from 1978 to 1993 died on Christmas Eve while in hospice care at Lenbrook in Atlanta, Georgia. Marsh, a passionate teacher of the Bible, and a local religious leader in the desegregation of public schools in the South, was 92-years old. Read More

The Project on Lived Theology is now accepting applications for the 2025 Summer Internship in Lived Theology, a service-learning immersion that offers undergraduates an opportunity to think and to write theologically about human rights and social justice in the context of an in-the-field service internship. Read More

On November 19, 2024, Professor Sarah Pinnock joined the UVA graduate seminar Theologies of Resistance and Reconciliation to talk about the life and thought of Dorothee Soelle.  Read More

The Project on Lived Theology presents a lecture with Robert P. Jones, New York Times Bestselling Author and Founder and President of the Public Religion Research Institute, titled “White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.” Read More

Facing Death is a collection of Holocaust and genocide scholars’ essays analyzing what this tragedy means for ourselves and our lives on Earth Read More

The Project on Lived Theology presents a lecture with Sarah K. Pinnock, Professor of Contemporary Religious Thought, Trinity University, titled “The World Can Be Different: The Theological Vision of Dorothee Soelle.” Read More

On October 8, 2024, Dr. Larry Rasmussen joined a graduate seminar in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia called Theologies of Resistance and Reconciliation to speak to the class about the thought and life of Niebuhr. … Read More

Elizabeth Rambo, the 2024 PLT Summer Intern, shared reflections about her work and findings from the summer in a talk on September 26. Rambo interned part-time with D.C. nonprofits Bread for the City in the food and social services department, and with Catholic Charities of D.C. in the clinical services department. Read More

The course explores the influence of theological ideas and religious commitments on social movements in America – how faith matters in politics and society – through historical narratives, novels, theological writings, and film. Read More