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News and Events
Theological Horizons supports initiatives nationally, from writing prize competitions to public lectures. Other events take place at Theological Horizons’ center at the Bonhoeffer House in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Read our latest newsletter (and see our Newsletter Archives below.)
UPCOMING! Beat the Rush Lunch: January 16, 2012
This special lunch for all UVa first year women is planned as as a break in the 2012 sorority rush season. We offered a buffet lunch as an occasion to address some big questions:.
Where do I find my value as a person? Am I beautiful? Who are my friends? How do I cope with disappointment? How do I view other women? What does it mean to judge someone else? Where does God fit in? How can I encourage others?
Lending their wisdom was a counselor, a UVa sorority alumna, a pastor & teacher, the, mother of a sorority alumna, and other experienced women.
Would you (or a friend) like to be invited to our 2012 Beat the Rush event? email us
Weekly Programs at the Bonhoeffer House
Vintage Group + Lunch
Explore the Christian life with Vintage, a reading and reflection group that meets weekly during the academic year.
Each week share lunch and we read a brief passage from the classic Christian tradition. We find new perpective on our own spiritual lives from believers who wrote, wondered and prayed long before we ever got here.
Vintage meets 1:00 to 1:50 every Friday at the Bonhoeffer House. No preparation is ever needed and your are welcome to join at any time. We can give you a ride to or from class.
Sign up to receive invitations or more info More about Vintage
Breakfast Bible Study
Create space for God. Start your day with coffee, muffins, Scripture, good friends, and great discussion led by Saranell Hartman.
Wednesdays from 9:00 to 9:50 am at the Bonhoeffer House
We'll pick you at 8:50 at Old Dorms and give you a ride to your 10:00 class. Want to know more?
ALL are welcome--students, faculty, community members!
Morning Prayer in the UVa Chapel
Meet the Lord on your way to class or to work, right on Grounds. Step into the quiet, cool of the Chapel for a brief time of Scripture and shared prayer led by students and friends.
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8:20-8:50
in the University of Virginia Chapel
For al members of the UVa community
Other Events
Beat the Rush: January 16, 2012
This a day of special events for all UVa women is planned as as a break in the 2012 sorority rush season. We offered a first year buffet lunch and a tea for Upper Classwomen as an occasion to address some big questions:.
Where do I find my value as a person? Am I beautiful? Who are my friends? How do I cope with disappointment? How do I view other women? What does it mean to judge someone else? Where does God fit in? How can I encourage others?
Lending their wisdom was a counselor, a UVa sorority alumna, a pastor & teacher, the, mother of a sorority alumna, and other experienced women.
Would you (or a friend) like to be invited to our 2012 Beat the Rush event? email us
Friendship at the Margins
On February 24, 2011, the International Executive Director of Word Made Flesh Ministies, Chris Heuertz, came to the Bonhoeffer House to speak about friendship at the margins and his experience in ministering to the poorest of the poor.
Click Here to listen to Chris Heuertz's lecture at the Bonhoeffer House
For a navigable breakdown of his talk, click here
Sari Bari - New Life in the Making
An evening with Sheila Yoder
Shelia Yoder, a missionary with the Word Made Flesh, came for an evening at the Bonhoeffer House. Motivated by the love and justice of God, Shelia equips women previously working as prostitutes in red light districts of Kolkata, India for a free and healthy life through Sari Bari.
Sari Bari is a business project that employs women who are able and want to leave prostitution. “ The name "Sari Bari" comes from two symbols. A sari is the traditional clothing worn by women in India. Saris represent the essence of womanhood. In Bengali, the word bari means "house” or “home." Our hope is for Sari Bari to be a safe home where women who have been exploited in the sex trade can have their dignity restored and experience a new life in the making. Each of our products made from the Indian sari is marked with a woman's name, a woman who now has the opportunity to make a choice for freedom and new life.”
The women sew and can earn a living. The find community and support through their relationships with each other and the Word Made Flesh missionaries. They hear the Good News of the life-giving power of Jesus.
So, what does God’s justice look like for the women, men and children of Kolkata’s red light districts?
In Shelia’s words:
Our desire for justice is often born out of anger and a desire for revenge. We want wrongs to be righted. This isn’t altogether bad. And we think we know what justice is: the bad man pays. We do need to be angry at the injustice we see, but we need to make sure that our efforts are focused in the right direction. I need to be constructive with it, recognize what I am really angry at. We see what is really in our hearts and that we can ourselves be the perpetuator of injustice and death.
I think there is legitimate compassion in our initial emotional response of anger to
suffering and injustice because what is being done is truly from hell. However, we stop
too soon because we don’t look at the perpetrator. We don’t take it far enough…But if we stop at social justice by making the evil man pay, then we’ve missed God’s heart. We have also then not seen ourselves correctly. The rest of the story is mercy…There is a simplicity and a complexity to all the theology I am coming to know. God loves. That’s simple. There is suffering and a million and one issues to work through as people leave lives of pain, suffering and sin. . . what does salvation and forgiveness mean in these situations? That’s complex, and there’s never one right answer for every situation.
Telling Our Healing Stories
with Kate Burke and Terri Powers
Listen to two women--both breast cancer survivors--tell the story of their illness and discuss the role of faith in healing.
Kate Burke is an accomplished acting coach, writer, teacher, and actress. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in the 1980s at age 31 and is currently the head of the theatre voice program at the University of Virginia.
Terri Powers is 78 years old and contracted breast cancer during her retirement. She says, "Cancer was really not in my plans at all. Yet the experience was filled with extraordinary blessings and I know that I was not unique."
Spring Institutes for Lived Theology
Evangelical Social Action and the Practices of Peace:
The Lived Theology of John M. Perkins
John M. Perkins – influential community organizer, minister, speaker, writer, and Civil Rights activist – was the keynote speaker at the Spring Institute on Lived Theology (SILT), in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 22-24, 2009. Audio and video recordings are at The Project on Lived Theology, along with many other resources.
Would you like a DVD of Charles Marsh's talk with John Perkins? Email us.
Charles Marsh's Speaking Events
Charles Marsh, CoDirector of Theological Horizons and University of Virginia 
Religion Professor, has been speaking across the country but you can join him online for these selected events:.
- Listen to or watch the video of Charles's "Last Lecture" at the University of Virginia
- Join us online for the Sunday Forum at the Washington National Cathedral as Charles Marsh and Dean Sam Lloyd talk about "Theology in Action: Bonhoeffer, King and You" (see photo)
- Listen to his lecture, "Redemption, Reconciliation and Creation of Beloved Community: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Christian Vision", Wheaton College
- Listen to Charles's lecture "Let Us Now Praise Peculiar People!" ,Baylor University
Gatherings for Worship in Community
There’s a lot of talk about community these days but the experience of true Christian community can be hard to find. Occasional evenings at the Bonhoeffer House offer a setting in which believers and friends of all ages can come together for food, Scripture, singing, prayer and conversation from the heart--and come away refreshed.
To be notified about upcoming gatherings at the Bonhoeffer House in Charlottesville, Virginia, email us at info@theologicalhorizons.org.
To receive invitations to future events, email us.
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