In his recently published book, Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious, PLT contributor David Dark Dark sets out to prove that embracing our religious background cultivates the fullness lived experiences has to offer, proving once and for all that we were created to rejoice in flourishing religious life.
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This Spring the Project is co-sponsoring several events, and will be hosting the first of two Spring Institute on Lived Theology (SILT) conferences in June on the theme “Can I Get a Witness?” Check out the spring line up and find out more about our upcoming SILT gatherings. Read More

In her lecture “Lived Theology on Death Row: The Story of Kelly Gissendaner,” Jennifer McBride tells of her friendship with Kelly and the theological implications of redemption and hope in the context of the Christian faith and Death Row. Read More

In their new book, A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed: Race, Memory, and Eucharist in White-Dominant Churches, theologians and Presbyterian ministers Mary McClintock Fulkerson and Marcia Mount Shoop emphasize the need to surface the dynamics of whiteness especially in contexts where whites have had the most power in America, such as mainline Protestant churches. Read More

The Online Journal of Public Theology promotes the church being engaged with the issues and powers of the day but ultimately captured by no one political perspective. Read More

Although the Episcopal Church was the first to establish a black congregation, African Americans are still working to achieve a unified body in which their beliefs are recognized not through social prejudices but the lens of the Catholic faith. Read More

The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement is Rev. Dr. William J. Barber’s memoir of the 2013 grassroots movement in North Carolina that protested restrictions on voting and demanded a make-over of the state government. Read More

Becca Stevens reflects on a journey of triumph for impoverished tea laborers, hope for café workers, and insight into the history of tea. Read More

Susan R. Holman, member of the Project’s Virginia Seminar and senior writer at the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University, won the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her new book, Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights. Read More

The Project on Lived Theology is now accepting applications for the 2016 Summer Internship in Lived Theology. Read More