Cries for liberation and shouts of pain and suffering ring out. This unified community bands together in strength through the concrete and eschatological promise of Jesus as the “eternal event of Liberation in the divine person who makes freedom a constituent of human existence.” Read More

Mt. Zion traces its history back to 1863, when, in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, Black congregants of Charlottesville Baptist Church successfully petitioned for their own worship space and purchased the Delevan Hotel on Main Street. Read More

Samantha Power describes the inner workings of American foreign policy as someone with deeply personal and ethics-driven experience. Read More

PLT summer intern Lillian West will research the history of Charlottesville’s Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church through the lens of its 1884 beginnings on Ridge Street.  Read More

Mallory McDuff brings together fifty stories from passionate women across the country leading the way in climate advocacy. Read More

Learn about pastor, theologian, and UVA student Diana’s amazing journey and her exciting plans for the future. Read More

Pomerantsev weaves memories of his Soviet childhood into the information wars of today to demonstrate the chilling ways that propaganda permeates American life in the modern age. Read More

It’s time for us to really roll up our sleeves and try to make sense of what emotional and psychological purposes are being fulfilled in the way these men and women think about God and how they use their faith as a weapon Read More

Jonathan Malesic recently published two short essays, an essay for Notre Dame Magazine and an op-ed in the New York Times. The first essay is about a time when he volunteered to lead a Dungeons & Dragons campaign and the … Read More

In Kendall Walser Cox’s Prodigal Christ: A Parabolic Theology, Cox seamlessly weaves together the parable of the prodigal son with the theology of Karl Barth and Julian of Norwich to form a fully effective christology, positing Jesus as the ultimate prodigal son. Read More