In association with the University of Notre Dame, The Church Life Journal: A Journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life recently published a lovely excerpt from Charles Marsh’s book God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and the Civil Rights.

“Twenty-five years later, Bowers’s vision of Christianity and America is no longer an idiosyncratic position forged in the crucible of the anti-civil rights movement by segregationists clinging to authority they’d quickly lose. Rather, Bowers’s theories sound like talking points for a generation of Christian nationalists who hold political office, run think tanks, publish sleek journals and newspapers, and permeate social media.”

Marking the 60 year anniversary of Freedom Summer, God’s Long Summer became a Princeton Classic.

The Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia is a research initiative, whose mission is to study the social consequences of theological ideas for the sake of a more just and compassionate world.