On Sunday, February 12, Charles Marsh will speak at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. He will contribute to the church’s year-long series, Be Reconciled, in which an arc of reconciliation is traced through three movements: reconciling relationships, reconciling to God, and reconciling communities. Read More

This news series, Can I Get a Witness? The Interviews, features conversations with the Witness participants to highlight how each author is being changed and challenged by the historical figure they are working to illumine. This week’s headliner is Ralph Eubanks, writing on Mahalia Jackson. Read More

The gun rights movement is at a high point… Gun rights advocates like to argue they are merely following through with our founders’ intentions. But that is hardly the case; we are engaged in a radical and reckless gun rights experiment, unlike we have ever seen before. With the usual avenues of support for gun control struggling as of late, Firmin DeBrabander will explain alternate approaches to galvanizing such support. Read More

PLT Contributor Jennifer McBride released her newest publication, Radical Discipleship, on January 1, 2017. Engaging the social evils of mass incarceration, capitol punishment, and homelessness, she connects liturgy, activism, and theological reflection with Christian discipleship that stands in solidarity with those whom society despises and rejects. Read More

The course, Kingdom of God in America, explores the influence of theological ideas on social movements in America and such questions as: How do our ideas about God shape the way we engage the social order? What role do nineteenth century European and American Protestant theologies play in informing the American search for “beloved community”, which was the term Martin Luther King Jr. sometimes used interchangeably with the Kingdom of God? What are the social consequences of theological commitments? Read More

Conversations surrounding difficult moral issues like war and peace occur in most faith communities. The United Methodist Church is no exception as some followers remain devoted to nonviolence in spite of the many doctrines released by the community at large on the topic. In Practicing Discipleship, author Nicole Johnson interviews twelve of these believers committed to a nonviolent theology to understand how they defend and practice their convictions. Read More

We celebrated the publication of our new book Lived Theology: New Perspectives on Method, Style, and Pedagogy (October 2016, Oxford University Press) on November 19th at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) held this year in San Antonio, … Read More

As a teenager in south Alabama, Lewis had heard a radio broadcast of Martin Luther King’s sermon, “St. Paul’s Address to American Christians,” and was struck by the contrast between the Pike County preachers of his childhood, who spoke of … Read More

The end of the Civil War spurred many important beginnings, most notably the freedom of enslaved individuals and the founding of the black social gospel. In The New Abolition, author Gary Dorrien traces the tradition from its emergence in the nineteenth century to its champion in the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois. Read More

At the Project this year, we want to celebrate Epiphany by imagining some gift-giving of our own. Read More