As a research fellow for the Project on Lived Theology, Heather Warren explored the Atlanta-based Protestant Hour radio show, which began as one station in 1945 but boasted 600 participating stations by 1963, and sounded a liberal theology that promoted the liberalization of Protestantism throughout its largely southern listening area. Her research culminated in the publication of an article by Cambridge University Press titled “Turn Your Radio On: Liberty Theology in a Souther Register, 1953-1963.” Read More

In association with the University of Notre Dame, The Church Life Journal: A Journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life recently published a lovely excerpt from Charles Marsh’s book God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and the Civil Rights. Read More

In conversation with Lee C. Camp, find out how he navigated shedding the taboos of his evangelical upbringing as he sits down to discuss his memoir, Evangelical Anxiety. Read More

In the winter of 1936, two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two thousand acres in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the most insular and oppressive regions in the nation. Remaking the Rural South, by Robert Hunt Ferguson, chronicles their story, and is the first… 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

Watch the keynote address of the 2025 Scoper Lecture in Christian Thought, “Open, Honest and Free: A Celebration of Theological Inquiry Across the University” featuring Charles Marsh, PhD, Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. Read More

Register to attend the Virtual Panel Discussion on April 24, 2025 at 8:00 pm, in which three experts chart a path for Faith in the University, moderated by Karen Marsh. Read More

Jenkins examines climate-driven religious practice through a historical lens, reflecting upon 700 years of climate history. Read More

On Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30 pm, St. Paul’s Memorial Church at the University of Virginia will be screening the Cast the First Stone Documentary in the “TUF Study Space” at St. Paul’s — located through the side courtyard, near the chapel. Read More

“While both the left and right have twisted Bonhoeffer’s views over the years, members of the far Christian right have taken that misappropriation to a dangerous new level, says Charles Marsh, author of ‘Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.’ They argue incorrectly that Bonhoeffer was never a pacifist and that he always supported certain types of political violence, Marsh says. Read More