Over the next few weeks, we will be rolling out our SILT 16/17: Can I Get a Witness line-up, introducing you to our authors and the historical figures they will be illuminating in their narratives. This week’s featured speakers are Nichole Flores, presenting on Ella Baker, and Daniel Rhodes, whose figure is Cesar Chavez. Read More

The USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture is a Los Angeles-based initiative dedicated to the local and international networking of religious, civic, and academic communities. Read More

Writing on his experience as a professor whose students include the incarcerated of Nashville, Dark calls us into a more understanding reception of the flawed human condition and a recognition for the beauty of grace. Read More

On Sunday, February 28, 2016, PLT Contributor Reverend Dr. Richard Wills, Sr. was installed as the new pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Read More

On October 8, 2015, Charles Marsh delivered the 14th Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture entitled “Bonhoeffer’s Transformative Encounters with the American Prophetic Tradition.” The Boisi Center website has available an exclusive interview with Marsh and the video of the presentation.
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The Justice Calling draws us into the whole story of Scripture, inviting us to know more intimately the God who loves justice and calls us to give our lives to seek the flourishing of others. Authors Hoang and Johnson will present at the book launch on March 17, 2016. Read More

University of Virginia students will serve in Charlottesville, the Shenandoah Valley, and Jacksonville, Florida The Project on Lived Theology has selected three students for the Summer Internship in Lived Theology 2016: Tessa Crews (Col ’16) is majoring in global studies with a concentration … Read More

Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy details the powerful true story of one of his first cases: Walter McMillian, an innocent young man who was sentenced to die for murder. Stevenson will speak on his work at the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 19, 2016. Read More

In his recently published memoir, PLT contributor Eddie Howard reflects on his journey of brokenness through the eyes of the redemptive power of God Read More

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center is hosting an exhibit on the 1963 Danville, Va., civil rights movement—one of the most important but least known civil rights struggles in the Commonwealth of Virginia—January 26 to April 9, 2016. Read More