As Reverend Dr. Edwards noted in an interview in 1986, five years into his ministry at Mt. Zion, they are a “survival church.” My research this summer has been a project of storytelling, attempting to bear witness to an intersection of communities “sing[ing] better songs with [their] lives.” The harmonies and disharmonies that I have encountered swell around me, holding despair, pain, and, ultimately, “triumph and calm confidence.” Read More

Grace Elizabeth Hale examines her own family history, and in the process uncovers a decades old lie of a racist and violent nature. Read More

Flores probes Our Lady of Guadalupe’s use and importance as an aesthetic symbol among Latine Catholic communities. Read More

“Now forty years after its publication, does Until Justice and Peace Embrace still speak to our times?” Dr. Mark Gornik asks in a recent essay, which we are delighted to share. Read More

This course introduces students to seminal writings in modern western thought concerning the meaning, truthfulness, and uses of religious belief. Read More

We are delighted to share the fall issue of “Public Health, Religion, and Spirituality Bulletin.” Susan Holman is a guest editor and contributor for the issue. Holman is senior writer at the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. Her work as an academic writer and editor explores connections between public health, nutrition, human rights and religious responses to poverty, particularly examples from early Christianity. Read More

The Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, in partnership with the Department of Religious Studies, is hosting best-selling author, essayist and UVA alumnus, Dr. Jonathan Malesic, on October 19 at 5 pm in Wilson Hall, Room 301. The title of Jonathan’s talk is entitled “Burnout Culture in Academia: Where It Comes From and How We’ll Get Beyond It.” Read More

Chris Rice examines the COVID-19 pandemic through its aftermath, reflecting on grief, renewal, and what the pandemic taught us about ourselves. Read More

Reflecting on the final works of theology and philosophy’s most notable contributors, Taylor helps us reflect on what it means to our lives for them to come to an end. Read More

Part theological inquiry and part memoir, Grace Y. Kao offers a new perspective on surrogacy through a Biblical and progressive lens. Read More