The video recording of John M. Perkins delivering the 2015 fall CAPPS lecture, entitled “Has the Dream Become a Nightmare? Prospects for Reconciliation in the Wake of the New Racism,” is now ready to be viewed. Read More

On Thursday, December 3 at 5pm, Dr. Jennifer McBride will present a lecture entitled “Lived Theology on Death Row: The Story of Kelly Gissendaner,” at St. Paul’s Memorial Church,1700 University Ave., Charlottesville, VA. Read More

Eugene McCarraher’s Reinhold Niebuhr lecture on public theology and the American century lecture is now available in PLT’s online resource collection. Read More

Join us on Thursday, December 3rd at 5pm to hear Dr. Jennifer McBride speak on her experience as part of the #kellyonmymind movement against the execution of Kelly Gissendaner. Read More

In The Political Disciple: A Theology of Public Life, Vincent Bacote addresses the Christian ambivalence toward political involvement: being active agents in the public sphere is an extension of our Christian responsibility. Rather than withdrawing from these duties in response … Read More

What does it look like to live a life of racial reconciliation? In an age of police brutality, mass incarceration, and even conflict on Grounds, we are searching for a means of healing. This Sunday as John M. Perkins reflects … Read More

This week on the Lived Theology Reading List, we offer a review of James E. Atwood’s America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé published in 2012 by Cascade Books. Atwood documents how Americans have been deceived into believing that the tools of … Read More

Soong-Chan Rah’s latest publication, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times, has just been released. Rah writes in response to the American church’s tendency to avoid lament. But lament is a missing, essential component of Christian faith. Lament recognizes struggles and suffering, … Read More

PLT intern Melina Rapazzini spent her summer working at New Hope Covenant Church in Oakland, California. Melina led the church’s day camp program for four weeks, leading other interns in serving 20 low-income children from the neighborhood. We asked her … Read More

On Sunday, November 1, John M. Perkins will present the 2015 Capps Lecture, entitled “Has the Dream Become a Nightmare? Prospects For Reconciliation in the Wake of the New Racism.” The lecture will begin at 4:00 p.m. in Nau Hall 101 … Read More