“Better an honest bewilderment than a perfect theory” – Oliver O’Donovan   “Hey YWAM* lady!” I paused for a second… Is that me? “YWAM LADY.” I was the only young, white female standing outside of the YWAM building at that … Read More

Prior to this week I was nervous to drive through the city of Oakland, California. You know in life when over a short period of time your eyes become so opened you almost feel blind? The sheer quantity of exposure … Read More

Caitlin Montgomery is a third-year religious studies and speech-language pathology student with a passion for helping children with special needs. While interning at the Virginia Institute of Autism and navigating new methods of behavioral therapy for children with autism, she hopes … Read More

This summer, three U.Va. undergraduates are participating in the Summer Internship in Lived Theology, our summer immersion program that encourages students to think and write theologically about service. Beginning next Monday, we will be rolling out our interns’ excellent blog posts … Read More

This summer the Project on Lived Theology is updating our resources section. As part of the website facelift (which is still in progress) the Project is creating a list of recommend resources. These resources reflect the work of fellow travelers — scholars, … Read More

Last week PBS Video released a video clip of an interview with Charles Marsh on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The video PBS produced uses photography throughout the 8 minute segment and highlights how Bonhoeffer’s trip to the United States impacted his future … Read More

The Corcoran Department of History has selected Parker Bates Fleming to be the recipient of the Bernard Peyton Chamberlain Memorial Prize for the best Distinguished Majors Thesis in World History, titled “‘Must We Do Nothing?’: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Origins of … Read More

Friend of the Project, Wolfgang Huber, has recently published Ethics: The Fundamental Questions of our Lives with Georgetown University Press. From the publisher: In the twenty-first century the basic questions of ethics are no longer the abstract terms of ethical theory, but the … Read More

On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, the U.Va. Department of Religious Studies and the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion will host a book launch for Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 by Benjamin C. Ray. The event will … Read More

Charles Marsh’s newest publication Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer has been shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, awarded for excellence in the art of biography. This prize of $5,000 will go to the author of … Read More