Willis Jenkins, currently an associate professor at Yale Divinity School, will join the U.Va. faculty this fall as associate professor of religious studies and a fellow in the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures. Dr. Jenkins will teach in Read More

A year ago, February 28, 2012, the Reverend George B. Telford Jr. passed away surrounded by loved ones in Charlottesville. Many know George from his decades of leadership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and in ecumenical circles, as well as Read More

The Project on Lived Theology is hosting Thursday Nights: Conversations in Lived Theology once a month this spring semester. Our first conversation was held Thursday, February 28 at 7:00 p.m. in the St. Paul’s Memorial Church lounge. Kris Norris and Read More

Dr. Ochs celebrated her ordination on February 16 at Congregation Beth Israel in Charlottesville, Virginia. Read her beautiful essay on her ordination here.

The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama, an initiative of the Project on Lived Theology, is a highly interactive digital archive that brings the theological drama of the American Civil Rights Movement to life. Through personal interviews and primary documentary … Read More

If you missed the Lived Theology event Let Justice Roll Down, email us for a complementary DVD of the dialogue between Dr. Perkins and Dr. Marsh.

Virginia Seminar member and U.Va. alum Jenny McBride discusses her new book, The Church for the World: A Theology of Public Witness in an interview conducted by PLT graduate research assistant A.J. Walton. Read the interview here. Read More

Dr. Russell Jeung, associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, recently published an analysis of Asian American voting in the 2008 election. Read about his findings here.

Dr. Ochs writes, “Rosh Hodesh Av this past July was my first time praying in Jerusalem with Women of the Wall. It was a quiet time, compared to the month before, when two women were detained for wearing prayer shawls, … Read More

Tim Hartman, Ph.D candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at U.Va. and former graduate research assistant for the Project on Lived Theology, has received an Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) Summer Research Fellowship in the amount of $5000. Read More