Theological Horizons, in partnership with Central Virginia Community Justice, Project on Lived Theology at UVA, and UVA Arts, is mobilizing local churches, justice organizations, student groups and community activists to welcome Equal Justice Institute Founder and New York Times bestselling author Bryan Stevenson for the 2nd annual Scoper Lecture in Christian Thought at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in the John Paul Jones Arena. Read More

McBride tells the story of the unbelievable transformation of Kelly Gissendaner, the only woman on Georgia’s death row until her execution in 2015. Read More

In Michael Lloyd’s Cafe Theology, he invites readers to join him for a cup of coffee and educates about the core tenants of Christian faith. Read More

PLT Research Fellow Emily Miller was recently accepted into Indiana University’s Undergraduate Religious Studies Association Spring Symposium for the work she conducted last summer during her internship in Lived Theology. Read More

In Kendall Walser Cox’s Prodigal Christ: A Parabolic Theology, Cox seamlessly weaves together the parable of the prodigal son with the theology of Karl Barth and Julian of Norwich to form a fully effective christology, positing Jesus as the ultimate prodigal son. Read More

Reading “After Ten Years”, we meet Bonhoeffer in his last days of freedom and at the height of his intellectual powers. Promising that the future will be uncertain and that personal goals will remain unfulfilled, everything in the essay – and let’s call it that, since there is no salutation, complimentary close or other elements of a letter – rushes toward the one inescapable question: “Are we still of any use?” Read More

Charlottesville native Amy L. Sherman offers expertise and guidance in “Agents of Flourishing: Pursuing Shalom in Every Corner of Society” for faith communities ready to engage deeper with the world around them. Discover the book here. Read More

Join us LIVE on Youtube at 6:30 EST on January 6 for a conversation with the book editors and some of the contributors to see what this book is all about and learn how some distinct people of faith have contributed to the pursuit of justice. Read More

Used as a resource during PLT Director Charles Marsh’s class this semester, Capps’ “The Child’s Song: The Religious Abuse of Children” is groundbreaking and important to understanding religious abuse. Discover the book here. Read More

Anxiety looms large in historical works of philosophy and psychology. It is an affect, philosopher Bettina Bergo argues, subtler and more persistent than our emotions, and points toward the intersection of embodiment and cognition. While scholars who focus on the work of luminaries as Freud, Levinas, or Kant often study this theme in individual works, they seldom draw out the deep and significant connections between various approaches to anxiety.  Read More