On June 23, 2014, Ambassador Peter Wittig and Huberta von Voss-Wittig hosted their first book salon in their Washington DC residence featuring Charles Marsh. Marsh discussed Strange Glory with an audience of over 100, while editor and publisher Elizabeth Sifton moderated … Read More

On Wednesday, November 5, Peter Slade will deliver his lecture, “Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Racial Reconciliation in Mississippi after the Civil Rights Movement.” The event will be held in Gibson Hall 342 at 3:30 pm. The public is … Read More

On May 8, 2014, Charles Marsh gave a reading and book talk on Strange Glory at Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee. David Dark, introducing Charles Marsh, said, “A big thing that Bonhoeffer brings to Charles is an insistence on the church … Read More

Commonweal magazine continues the steady praise of Charles Marsh’s Bonhoeffer biography with its recent review. Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a “splendid biography” that “provide[s] a rich and detailed account of how Bonhoeffer’s immensely eventful life unfolded…[Marsh does] … Read More

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”—Dietrich Bonhoeffer On Sunday and Monday, October 19-20, The Dillard Forum of Trinity United Methodist Church … Read More

On Friday, July 11, Charles Marsh was interviewed by Martha Woodroof on WMRA’s The Spark. He discusses his experience working in Berlin in 2007 after receiving the Guggenheim Fellowship and the opportunities that followed. Marsh also explains his access to rare resources … Read More

Virginia Seminar member Susan R. Holman was recently interviewed by “The Poor in Spirit,” a theology blog written by Alvin Rapien. She discusses her influences and current literary interests, as well as her perspective on Christian responses and approaches to human … Read More

From September 25-27, 2014, the 29th Annual Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History will convene at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California with author and Project director Charles Marsh as a featured speaker. From the event website: Contemporary historians have … Read More

On Wednesday, October 1, the Project on Lived Theology summer interns Claire Constance and Peter Hartwig will share their field reports, a composition of experiences gained through the PLT internship program. Claire Constance spent the summer in Limpopo, South Africa training community health workers … Read More

On Wednesday, September 24, Paul M. Gaston, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Virginia, will lead a seminar on the Civil Rights Movement in Charlottesville, Virginia. The seminar will begin at 3:30 pm in the University of Virginia’s … Read More