On July 13, Charles Marsh delivered the keynote address at the Virtuous Character: Common Values, Shared Visions conference in Amsterdam. Entitled “Are We Still of Any Use?”, the presentation revisits Bonhoeffer’s exploration of this question he raises in his essay, “After Ten Years.” Read More

On Thursday, October 12, Stanley Hauerwas will deliver the 2017 CAPPS Lecture in Christian Theology, entitled “Christianity is Madness: Kierkegaard and the Academy,” following a seminar discussion with Eugene McCarraher on Wednesday, October 11. Both events are free and open to the public. Read More

In Bonhoeffer’s Reception of Luther, author Michael P. DeJonge presents Bonhoeffer’s Lutheran theology of justification focused on the interpersonal presence of Christ in word, sacrament, and church. Read More

Recent events in local and national spaces– most recently the white supremacy rallies of August 11 and 12– have made loving your neighbor a difficult undertaking. Named in honor of civil rights activist John M. Perkins, The Perkins House has been established in Charlottesville’s 10th and Page neighborhood to commit to this endeavor. Read More

In The Year of Small Things, authors Sarah Arthur and Erin Wasinger recount the story of the Arthur’s time in a new church located in the suburbs, and the unique challenge they faced: how to translate the practices of “radical” faith into their new context. Read More

The 2017 Summer Interns in Lived Theology will give their final presentations on Tuesday, September 26 at the Bonhoeffer House, located at 1841 University Circle in Charlottesville. A reception will begin at 7 p.m., and the presentations will begin by 7:30. The public is invited, and admission is free. Read More

On Thursday, September 7, the Most Rev. Michael Curry, the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, preached at a special service of Holy Eucharist at St. Paul’s Memorial Church in Charlottesville. The service was held on a day when Bishop Curry made a pastoral visit to Episcopal clergy in the Charlottesville area and met with the governance bodies of the Diocese, representing the prayerful concern of the whole Church in his role as chief priest and pastor following the traumatic weekend of August 11 and 12. Read More

On Wednesday, September 20, Michael P. DeJonge will deliver a guest lecture at UVA. With a focus on his recent book, Bonhoeffer’s Reception of Luther, Michael DeJonge will show how Bonhoeffer’s positions on a range of ethical-political issues – from race, to war and peace, to resisting state injustice – rest on a complex and balanced account of the relationship between theology and political life inherited through the Lutheran tradition. Read More

In Growing Pains, author Christopher Meehan tells the painful story of integrating Timothy Christian School in suburban Chicago during the turbulent 1960s and the subsequent creation of Chicago West Side Christian School, a “beacon of reconciliation.” Read More

Lived Theology: New Perspectives on Method, Style, and Pedagogy contains the work of an emerging generation of theologians and scholars who pursue research, teaching, and writing as a form of public responsibility motivated by the conviction that theological ideas aspire in their inner logic toward social expression. Reading Religion, the newly launched book review site of the American Academy of Religion, recently reviewed the book, recognizing the work’s unique and valuable contribution to today’s theological inquiry. Read More