The Corcoran Department of History has selected Parker Bates Fleming to be the recipient of the Bernard Peyton Chamberlain Memorial Prize for the best Distinguished Majors Thesis in World History, titled “‘Must We Do Nothing?’: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Origins of … Read More

Friend of the Project, Wolfgang Huber, has recently published Ethics: The Fundamental Questions of our Lives with Georgetown University Press. From the publisher: In the twenty-first century the basic questions of ethics are no longer the abstract terms of ethical theory, but the … Read More

On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, the U.Va. Department of Religious Studies and the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion will host a book launch for Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 by Benjamin C. Ray. The event will … Read More

Charles Marsh’s newest publication Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer has been shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, awarded for excellence in the art of biography. This prize of $5,000 will go to the author of … Read More

We’re excited to invite you to join us for the official launch of Kingdom Politics by the Project’s own Kristopher Norris and Sam Speers! The book launch will be held on Thursday, April 30th from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at … Read More

On Saturday, May 2 at 2 p.m., Charles Marsh will give a book talk and reading of Strange Glory at First Presbyterian Church Chapel in Staunton, Virginia. The church is located at the corner of New and Frederick Streets. This event … Read More

On Saturday, April 25, at 10 a.m., the Project on Lived Theology will host a workshop entitled, “Parables of Privilege Meeting Poverty: a conversation on the posture of social service workers.” Participants will discuss privilege, poverty, and faith-based service with Josh Kaufman-Horner, … Read More

Gütersloher Verlagshaus has published the German translation of Charles Marsh’s Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The book, entitled Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Der verklärte Fremde, Eine Biografie, was released on March 23, 2015. To purchase Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Der verklärte Fremde from the publisher’s … Read More

Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck have compiled a volume of twenty-one of Fannie Lou Hamer’s most important speeches spanning her civil rights career, entitled The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is. Published by … Read More

On March 12 and 20, 2015, Virginia Seminar member Russell M. Jeung was featured in Christianity Today. The articles, a two-part collection entitled “Raising a Generation of Peacemakers,” are excerpts of Jeung’s Virginia Seminar book project about his Hakka (Guest People) background … Read More