Exploring the Interconnection of Theology and Life
The Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia is a research community, whose mission is to study the social consequences of theological ideas for the sake of a more just and compassionate world.
Check out our collection of published works and other resources on lived theology.
Let Us Now Praise the Peculiar People: Charles Marsh at Bay View Chautauqua
On Sunday, June 28, 2026, PLT Director Charles Marsh spoke on the theme “Let Us Now Praise the Peculiar People” in the historic John M. Hall Auditorium at Bay View Chautauqua in Petoskey, Michigan. Clustering around the story of his visit to the grave of Fannie Lou Hamer in the summer of 1993, Marsh invited listeners to consider what it might mean to inhabit the present faithfully: to live with courage and compassion, and to bear the distinctive witness of a people called to hope.
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Can I Get a Witness – People Get Ready
The Project on Lived Theology has recently completed a two-volume biographical history of the Christian Left in the United States. To read these vivid theological lives is to encounter a form of Christian conviction that is at once Christ-centered and worldly.
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God’s Long Summer Becomes a Princeton Classic
Charles Marsh takes us back to this place and time, when the lives of activists on all sides of the civil rights issue converged and their images of God clashed.