Trinity Forum Conversations

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June 23 Cultivating Christian Resilience
How can we cultivate a faith that endures and flourishes?
Author, Anglican priest, and Trinity Forum Senior Fellow Tish Harrison Warren shows us how lasting and beautiful things can take root and grow in our lives. By drawing on themes from her new book, What Grows in Weary Lands: On Christian Resilience, we will explore how habits rooted in the historic church—prayer, liturgy, Sabbath, and community—can anchor us in a stormy age.
This episode is drawn from an Online Conversation in 2026. You can view the transcript and other resources here.

Go deeper into the issues discussed in this episode with these Trinity Forum Readings:
Pilgrim of Tinker Creek; Annie Dillard (Introduction by Tish Harrison Warren)
Confessions; Saint Augustine
Wrestling With God; Simone Weil
Revelations of Divine Love; Julian of Norwich
Revelation; Flannery O'Connor
48 min
June 09A Conversation With Ben Sasse
In a culture shaped by distraction, anxiety, and constant noise, how do we focus on what matters most?
In this special episode, we're sharing a conversation from a recent Trinity Forum event featuring Ben Sasse—former U.S. Senator, university president, husband, and father. Following a terminal cancer diagnosis, Ben has embraced a new vocation: helping us think more clearly about the questions that matter most, and the things that endure.
In this conversation with Cherie Harder, our Trinity Forum president who’s known him since their undergrad days at Harvard, Ben joins a room full of family, friends, and colleagues to reflect on mortality, friendship, family, faith, and the kind of attention required for a flourishing life.
What follows is a lightly edited version of that conversation. If you'd like to watch the full video of the interview, you can find a link to the YouTube livestream here.
Recommended Trinity Forum Readings
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (with an introduction by Ben Sasse)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Federalist Papers
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Here are Cherie and Ben from the live recording at National Community Church in Washington, DC:
1 hr 7 min
May 26From Wasteland to Grail: Stories that Shape Our Lives, with Malcolm Guite
In March, we welcomed Malcolm Guite for an in-person event to celebrate his new book, Galahad and the Grail, which is the first in his Merlin’s Isle trilogy published through Rabbit Room Press.

While he was with us, Malcolm sat for this podcast interview in which he described his vision in creating this epic ballad, along with offering a deep exploration of what brought him to poetry in the first place.

Since the book’s release, Galahad and the Grail has topped bestselling charts and received numerous accolades, demonstrating that its ancient stories find renewal in our modern era.

You can watch the video of the full conversation on our Youtube Channel here

Recommended Trinity Forum Readings:
God’s Grandeur: The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot with an introduction by Makoto Fujimura
The Pardoner’s Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer
55 min
May 12Forgiveness in an Outraged World, with Amy Orr-Ewing
We live in an unforgiving age. Even as we know that Jesus commanded forgiveness, extending it can seem impossible, impractical, self-harming, even unjust.

In these times of outrage and fear, what can help us become forgiving people?

Author Amy Orr-Ewing joined us for a recent online conversation, where we explored these questions for a live audience:
"The church needs to recapture the vision of forgiveness as an actuality. This is something real rooted in the sacrifice of Jesus at the cross. And it's that that has actually been the animating force of the Christian faith throughout history."
This episode is drawn from an Online Conversation in 2026. You can view the transcript and other resources here.
Recommended Trinity Forum Readings:
Confessions; Augustine
Wrestling With God; Simone Weil
Purchase of a Soul; Victor Hugo
Revelations of Divine Love; Julian of Norwich
54 min
April 28Living a Non-Anxious Life, with Alan Fadling
We are a culture well acquainted with anxiety. Recent years have shown it rising dramatically, particularly among Generation Z and Millennials, but affecting all of us. In the Sermon on the Mount, however, Jesus urges us not to be anxious. We wonder: is that actually possible today?

Author Alan Fadling joined us for a recent online conversation, where we explored these questions for a live audience:
"Maybe Peace, and its friends like Hope and Joy, maybe that's a better engine, maybe that's a better source of energy and motivation than my anxiety ever has been. And if my anxiety is fuel, then it's fuel that burns dirty."
This episode is from a conversation from February 2026. You can view the transcript and other resources here.
Recommended Trinity Forum Readings:
Confessions; Augustine
Brave New World; Aldous Huxley
The Long Loneliness; Dorothy Day
Wrestling With God; Simone Weil
53 min
April 14Practicing Slow Theology with Nijay Gupta
In a culture shaped by speed, outrage, and constant distraction, many find it difficult to cultivate a resilient Christian faith. Is slowing down a key to renewing our love of God and neighbor, and sustaining a more durable, authentic faith in a restless age? And how, in practical terms, can we tune out the noise and hear the “still, small voice”?

Drawing on the themes of his book Slow Theology, its co-author, theologian Nijay Gupta, joined us for an online conversation in 2026, where we explored these questions for a live audience:
"There's a journey that we have to take of striving after God, not because God is a cosmic killjoy, but because we have growth that needs to take place. And that happens slowly."
This episode is from a conversation from March 2026. You can view the transcript and other resources here.
We hope you’ll consider becoming a member of our community, the Trinity Forum Society. Join us in exploring timeless Christian wisdom together, so you gain clarity and courage for your own life, and help cultivate a renewed culture of hope.
Related Trinity Forum Readings:
Confessions; Augustine
Wrestling With God; Simone Weil
Man's Search for Meaning; Viktor Frankl
Who Stands Fast? Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Why God Became Man; Anselm of Canterbury
54 min
March 31 Discovering a Life Worth Living, with Miroslav Volf
What makes a good life? In the fragmented and harried age we inhabit, what habits of attention, reflection, and action orient us toward what is good, true, and beautiful?

The season of Lent is a good time for us to tackle such “big questions.” Drawing on his popular course at Yale, theologian and author Miroslav Volf joined us for an online conversation in 2024, where we explored these questions for a live audience.
"What is the treasure for which you would be willing to sell everything that you have? And if you know what the treasure is, are you willing ... to risk everything to have that treasure?"

Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture in New Haven, Connecticut. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including the New York Times bestseller Life Worth Living, A Public Faith, Public Faith in Action, and Exclusion and Embrace (winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion and selected as among the 100 best religious books of the twentieth century by Christianity Today). Educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, Volf regularly lectures around the world.
Related Trinity Forum Readings:

Man's Search for Meaning; Viktor Frankl
On Happiness; Thomas Aquinas
Brave New World; Aldous Huxley
How Much Land Does a Man Need? Leo Tolstoy
Wrestling with God; Simone Weil
58 min
March 17 Hope in the Darkness with Curt Thompson
As we continue our journey through the season of Lent, we’re offering a series to help each of us prepare the way of the Lord. As we go deeper in our spiritual practices during these days, our guide today is the author and psychiatrist Dr. Curt Thompson.

In this conversation, Curt talks about the virtue, and discipline, of pursuing hope, even amid the darkness of a broken world:
"While I am working to move toward Jesus, while I'm moving to be further in the dance of the Trinity, I continue to suffer because evil is not about to go quietly into the night ... [we must] posture ourselves with our suffering in the same way that the Holy Trinity does when it comes to the suffering that Jesus experienced, such that we can join him in that."

This episode is drawn from an online conversation recorded in 2023. View the transcript and other resources there.
Related Trinity Forum Readings:
Confessions; St Augustine
God's Grandeur; Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bulletins from Immortality; Emily Dickinson
On Friendship; Cicero
On Happiness; Aquinas
Man's Search for Meaning; Viktor Frankl
56 min
March 03 Affirming God's Goodness Amidst Suffering, with Alan Noble
Welcome to the Trinity Forum Conversations podcast.

As we move through the season of Lent, we’re offering a series to help each of us prepare the way of the Lord. It’s a good time to take stock of our spiritual practices, and our guide today is the author and professor Alan Noble.

In his book, On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden & Gift of Living, Alan contends that simply deciding to engage with the world each day constitutes a declaration of the goodness of God:
“Now, there may come times when you are required by your suffering to radically depend upon others to carry you out of bed. My advice is to embrace those moments, knowing that you’ll carry your neighbor in return when the time comes.”
This episode is drawn from an Online Conversation recorded in 2023. We hope you enjoy the conversation.
30 min
February 17 Habits of the Way with John Mark Comer
As we move into the season of Lent, we’re offering a series to help each of us prepare the way of the Lord. It’s a good time to take stock of our spiritual practices, and today’s guide is the author John Mark Comer.

In his book Practicing the Way, John Mark explores the practical realities of what it means to be an apprentice of Jesus:
“It seems to me that the telos of the spiritual journey in the Christian way is becoming a person of love through deepening union with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit…It’s the two greatest commandments: love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself, that Jesus put at the center of apprenticeship to him.”
This episode is drawn from an online conversation recorded in 2024.
36 min

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Trinity Forum Conversations is a podcast exploring the big questions in life by looking to the best of the Christian intellectual tradition and elevating the voices, both ancient and modern, who…