Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy details the powerful true story of one of his first cases: Walter McMillian, an innocent young man who was sentenced to die for murder. Stevenson will speak on his work at the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 19, 2016. Read More

In his recently published memoir, PLT contributor Eddie Howard reflects on his journey of brokenness through the eyes of the redemptive power of God Read More

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center is hosting an exhibit on the 1963 Danville, Va., civil rights movement—one of the most important but least known civil rights struggles in the Commonwealth of Virginia—January 26 to April 9, 2016. Read More

The Story of Virginia Organizing Virginia Organizing has been working for twenty years to bring long-term, sustainable change to Virginia through a commitment to social justice. Fellow travelers Ruth Berta and Amanda Leonard Pohl chronicle the organization’s journey. The Virginia Organizing website describes … Read More

Contribute to the Lived Theology Reading List with book suggestions that offer rich and generative material for theological inquiry by posting your thoughts to twitter with the hashtag #LivedTheologyReads. Read More

On February 16 and 17, 2016, Charles Marsh will deliver Mercer University’s 25th annual Harry Vaughan Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor of Christianity Lectures in Macon, Georgia. The lecture series is titled “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: New Perspectives of His Life, Thought and Promise.” Read More

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