David Bentley Hart, author of The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, will speak on his book on Tuesday, March 25 at the Bonhoeffer House. The lecture will be at 3:30 p.m., and all are invited. Read More

Project alumna and consultant for the Virginia Seminar class of 2014, Susan R. Holman is senior writer at the Harvard Global Health Institute. She received her BS and MS degrees in nutrition, completing her dietetic internship at the Frances Stern Nutrition Center and Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She pursued further graduate work in religious studies, obtaining an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD from Brown University. She writes and speaks as an international scholar on faith-based responses to poverty, with a focus on health issues. Read More

Last November, Diana Butler Bass gave the 2013 Capps Lecture in Christian Theology and led an informal afternoon workshop at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Bass is a scholar of American religion and culture, and her lecture considered the rapidly changing religious and political landscape of the United States and its implications for the future of the church. You can watch her video and listen to her afternoon workshop at this link. Read More

During the weeks of June 8-28 in Jackson, Mississippi, the 2014 Institute for College and University Teachers will explore the struggle for freedom in Mississippi while comparing it to significant events in other parts of the American South. This year’s institute, “Finding Mississippi … Read More

Tuesday, March 4, Victoria Barnett with speak on “The New Era of Bonhoeffer Interpretation.” The lecture will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Gibson Hall 242 as part of Charles Marsh’s seminar, Bonhoeffer and Modernity. Read More

Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless is part of the Service Provider Council (SPC), a group of representatives from area social service agencies that provide critical prevention and intervention services to the homeless and very poor of Central Virginia. SPC meets … Read More

Edward J. Blum of the Religion in American History blog recently asked Ted Smith to put together a “so you want to begin thinking about political theology” reading list. Read More

Peter Heltzel and Faith-RootedAlexia Salvatierra published a new book through InterVarsity Press called Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World. Read More

The Department of Religious Studies and the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion are pleased to invite you to a Book Launch and Discussion with Professor Willis Jenkins, on Wednesday, February 19 at 4-6 pm in the West Oval Room of the Rotunda. Read More

Southern Living has honored Susan Glisson, assistant professor in Southern studies and executive director of the Institute on Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi, as one of “The New Heroes of Civil Rights.” Read More