(Commentary co-written by UVA professor Charles Marsh, director of the Project on Lived Theology) Our country claims to “hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Chief among these rights is life, but these days we are asking a lot of questions about life: What are lives really worth? And whose lives matter?