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  • Pursuing Humility, with Richard Foster and Brenda Quinn

    Pursuing Humility, with Richard Foster and Brenda Quinn

    In an age when self-promotion is often celebrated as a sign of leadership and strength, humility may seem a lost virtue. Or alternatively, a form of moral condolence for the less successful.

    In his recent work, Learning Humility, theologian Richard Foster argues that humility is actually strength, and that learning humility is more needed than ever. As Foster explains, humility releases us from a preoccupation with self, and allows us to live a life of freedom:


    “One of the dangers among religious folks is that they can become stuffy bores. And it is hilarity that frees us from that. We don't take ourselves so seriously. We can laugh at our own foibles. If you look carefully… it's not hard to identify humble people. You'll find the freedom that they have to just enjoy life and enjoy other people, enjoy the successes of another person rather than being envious of it. Things like that. And so that's why humility, the most basic of the virtues, opens us up to a life of freedom.”


    May Foster’s call to humility, and pastor and writer Brenda Quinn’s practical insights on living it out in leadership and community, inspire you this Lenten season to contemplate the humility of Jesus and the way of the cross.


    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in 2022. Watch the full video of the conversation here, and learn more about Richard Foster and Brenda Quinn.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    Learning Humility, by Richard Foster

    Celebration of Discipline, by Richard Foster

    Streams of Living Water, by Richard Foster

    Sanctuary of the Soul, by Richard Foster

    The Life With God Bible, contributed to by Richard Foster
    C.S. Lewis

    Timothy Keller

    The Frenzy of Renown


    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    The Long Loneliness, by Dorothy Day

    Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

    Who stands Fast, featuring Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Babette's Feast, by Isak Dinesen

    Wrestling with God, by Simone Weil 


    Related Conversations:
    A New Year With The Word with Malcolm Guite
    Music, Creativity & Justice with Ruth Naomi Floyd


    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society


    Special thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.


    37 min
  • Word Beneath the Words with Malcolm Guite

    Word Beneath the Words with Malcolm Guite


    We’re joined on our podcast by poet, priest and songwriter, Malcolm Guite. With grace and insight, Malcolm has written of the mystery, beauty and imaginative force of language and the ways in which our imaginations apprehend truth that our reason cannot fully comprehend:

    “Jesus says, love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your strength, and all your mind. And somewhere in all those ‘alls’ is all your imagination.  And in fact, when we look at the teaching of Jesus, it's mostly an appeal to the imagination as a way of perceiving truth in a fresh way. He tells stories and parables.”

    We trust that you’ll be inspired by the beauty of Guite’s poetry, and by the ways in which the poetic imagination brings healing to the false divide between the subjective and the objective.

    • 04:44 The Connection Between the Priestly and Poetic Vocations
    • 12:02 The Role of Imagination in Apprehending Truth
    • 17:48 The Responsibility of Language and the Power of Words
    • 23:24 The Idea of Being Spoken into Being
    • 32:25 The Destructive Power of Words
    • 36:23 The Importance of Intellectual Hospitality

    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in 2024. Watch the full video of the conversation here, and learn more about Malcolm Guite.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    John Donne

    Love, Remember, by Malcolm Guite

    Parable and Paradox, by Malcolm Guite

    Theology and the Poetic Imagination, by Malcolm Guite

    The Singing Bowl, by Malcolm Guite

    Waiting on the Word, by Malcolm Guite

    Lifting the Veil, by Malcolm Guite

    Sounding the Seasons, by Malcolm Guite

    The Word Within the Words, by Malcolm Guite

    Gerard Manley Hopkins

    George Herbert

    R.S. Thomas

    Seamus Heaney

    John Keats

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Wiliiam Wordsworth

    William Shakespeare

    C. S. Lewis

    Sir Andrews

    Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

    The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis

    John Milton

    Edmund Spenser

    Thomas Clarkson

    Pilgrim's Progress

    Diana Glyer

    David's Crown, by Malcolm Guite


    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    Spirit and Imagination, selections from Samuel Taylor Coleridge with an introduction by Malcolm Guite

    Bulletins from Immortality: Poems by Emily Dickinson

    God's Grandeur: The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Sacred and Profane Love, featuring the poetry of John Donne


    Related Conversations:
    A New Year With The Word with Malcolm Guite
    Music, Creativity & Justice with Ruth Naomi Floyd


    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society


    Special thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.

    43 min
  • Music, Creativity & Justice with Ruth Naomi Floyd

    Music, Creativity & Justice with Ruth Naomi Floyd

    How should we think about work within, and live faithfully within a world that was called and created to be good and beautiful, and yet everywhere is marred by ugliness and injustice? 

    Jazz vocalist and composer Ruth Naomi Floyd joins our podcast to discuss the intersection of music, creativity, and justice, and to help us think deeply about our role in repairing, re-envisioning, and creating new places of beauty, justice, and flourishing:

    We know that art shapes and reshapes us and that it's there in the cross of Jesus, I believe, where beauty and violence collided and beauty won. And so that act of loving someone…purposely trying to love someone, especially those that seem or are viewed or deemed unlovable, is…directly connected and intrinsically connected to our art making.

    We hope you enjoy and are encouraged by Floyd’s artistic journey, how she finds beauty in the midst of suffering, and her vision for the role of love in creativity.


    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in 2021. Watch the full video of the conversation here, and learn more about Ruth Naomi Floyd.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    The Frederick Douglass Jazz Works

    It Was Good, Making Music to the Glory of God, by Ruth Naomi Floyd

    The Problem of Good, by Ruth Naomi Floyd

    Dr. John Nunez

    Toni Morrison

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    Vincent van Gogh

    Hans Christian Andersen

    Miles Davis

    Francis Schaeffer

    Joshua Stamper


    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Letters from Vincent van Gogh

    Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King Jr.

    Revelation, by Flannery O'Connor, 

    Bulletins from Immortality, by Emily Dickinson.

    Related Conversations:
    A New Year With The Word with Malcolm Guite

    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society

    Special thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.

    31 min
  • Tolkien, Lewis, and the Realities of War with Joe Loconte

    Learning in Wartime with Lewis and Tolkien and Joe Laconte


    Trinity Forum Senior Fellow Joe Loconte joins our podcast to discuss the friendship and legacy of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. He highlights how their wartime experiences, and their subsequent refusal to become disillusioned and disenchanted in the aftermath of World War I allowed for some of the greatest works of literature in modern history.


    In the moral and cultural tumult of the inter-war years, their example of resilience and imagination is inspiring. As Joe Loconte shared, they were using their art to actively resist the totalizing and dehumanizing ideologies that were ascendent in their day:

    And it's just no coincidence. They are deliberately pushing back, I think, in a way that, that some biographers have not maybe fully appreciated. They are pushing back in their writings against the totalitarian impulse and trying to defend the role of the individual, the choices that individuals have to make.

    Joe Loconte reminds us of the surprising return of hope for those who look up—as Samwise Gamgee says in the Lord of the Rings,” In the end the shadow was only a small and passing thing. There was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.”


    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in 2020. Watch the full video of the conversation here, and learn more about Joe Loconte here.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    C.S. Lewis

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt, by Joe Loconte

    The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm, by Joe Loconte

    God, Locke, and Liberty: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in the West, by Joe Loconte

    A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and A Great War, by Joe Loconte

    Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis

    John Locke

    Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Ernest Hemingway

    Erich Maria Remarque

    The Wasteland, by T. S. Eliot

    The Inner Ring, by C.S. Lewis

    Owen Barfield

    Hugo Dyson

    Phantastes, by George MacDonald

    The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis


    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    A Time to Stand, by Helmuth James von Moltke

    Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

    Children of Light and Children of Darkness, by Reinhold Niebuhr

    The Golden Key, by George MacDonald


    Related Conversations:
    Rebuilding our Common Life with Yuval Levin
    The Challenge of Christian Nationalism with Mark Noll and Vincent Bacote
    The Decadent Society with Ross Douthat
    Science, Faith, Trust and Truth with Francis Collins
    Beyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene Rivers
    Justice, Mercy, and Overcoming Racial Division with Claude Alexander and Mac Pier
    Healing a Divided Culture with Arthur Brooks
    After Babel with Andy Crouch and Johnathan Haidt
    Trust, Truth, and The Knowledge Crisis with Bonnie Kristian
    Hope in an Age of Anxiety with Curtis Chang & Curt Thompson
    Advent: the Season of Hope with Tish Harrison Warren
    Caroling Christmas and Christian Formation with Keith Getty


    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society


    Special thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.

    30 min
  • Hope in an Age of Anxiety

    We are in an anxious age. By some estimates, a third of all Americans will struggle with anxiety in their lives, and nearly 20% currently suffer from an anxiety disorder. For those suffering the mental distortions of anxiety, life can be difficult, and hope elusive. And for many Christians who have tried and failed to stop their slide into fear and worry by simply “laying down their burdens,” they may feel an added sense of spiritual failure as well.


    We’re joined on our podcast by psychiatrist Curt Thopmson and theologian Curtis Chang who help us explore a counterintuitive approach to understanding our anxiety:

    I believe the Bible and Jesus's own life invites us to treat [anxiety] not as a problem to make go away, but precisely as a signal. A signal, an invitation, what I call an opportunity, an invitation to walk through anxiety, to actually experience it in the way that actually we were designed to by God for spiritual growth in Jesus, where we actually meet Jesus more deeply, precisely in our anxiety.

    It's not that we have to make anxiety go away, and then finally, then we're like qualified to somehow be with Jesus. It's that actually in our experience of anxiety, that's where we encounter Jesus most deeply and encounter the truths about ourselves most deeply.

    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in 2023. Watch the full video of the conversation here. Learn more about Curt Thopmson and Curtis Chang.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry is the Doorway to Your Best Self, by Curtis Chang

    The Age of Anxiety, by W.H. Auden

    The Anatomy of the Soul, The Soul of Shame, The Soul of Desire, by Curt Thompson

    Jonathan Haidt

    Richard Schwartz


    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl

    Wrestling with God, by Simone Weil

    Augustine's Confessions

    Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

    The Long Loneliness, by Dorothy Day


    Related Conversations:
    Rebuilding our Common Life with Yuval Levin
    The Challenge of Christian Nationalism with Mark Noll and Vincent Bacote
    The Decadent Society with Ross Douthat
    Science, Faith, Trust and Truth with Francis Collins
    Beyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene Rivers
    Justice, Mercy, and Overcoming Racial Division with Claude Alexander and Mac Pier
    Healing a Divided Culture with Arthur Brooks
    After Babel with Andy Crouch and Johnathan Haidt

    How to Know a Person with David Brooks
    Trust, Truth, and The Knowledge Crisis with Bonnie Kristian
    Hope in an Age of Anxiety with Curtis Chang & Curt Thompson

    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society


    Special thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.


    38 min
  • Caroling Christmas and Christian Formation with Keith Getty

    During Advent and Christmastide–and at all times–how can we understand and fully experience the formative power of music? And amid distraction and anxiety, how can we keep Christ at the center of our hearts as we sing?

    As Keith Getty explains, Christmas carols are not only about festivity, but also formation. For all of the delight they bring, they stand as musical masterpieces that teach deep truths, embed them within our memory and consciousness, unite a disparate people in praise, and cultivate and orient our sense of joy:

    “We're fearfully and wonderfully made. We remember tunes and we forget sermons, not because we're bad people, but it's because of how God made us. The carols are special because repetition is a form of liturgy. And each Christmas, the liturgy of singing provides such an opportunity for us.” - Keith Getty

    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded earlier this month. Watch the full video of the conversation here, and learn more about Keith Getty here.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    Sing! How Worship Transforms Your Life, Family, and Church, by Keith and Kristen Getty

    John Lennox
    Winston Churchill

    Charles Wesley

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jeremy Begbie

    Alistair Begg

    Isaac Watts

    John Calvin


    Keith Getty is an extraordinary hymn writer, musician, and catalyst for the modern hymn movement. He joined us for a special Trinity Forum Online Conversation to explore music, formation, and beauty which we're pleased to bring you now as a special podcast during this season of Advent.

    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded earlier this month. Watch the full video of the conversation here, and learn more about Keith Getty here.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    Sing! How Worship Transforms Your Life, Family, and Church, by Keith and Kristen Getty


    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    Bright Evening Star, by Madeleine L'Engle

    Why God Became Man, by Anselm of Canterbury

    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard

    The Strangest Story in the World, by G.K. Chesterton

    Handel's Messiah 

    Related Conversations:
    Rebuilding our Common Life with Yuval Levin
    The Challenge of Christian Nationalism with Mark Noll and Vincent Bacote
    The Decadent Society with Ross Douthat
    Science, Faith, Trust and Truth with Francis Collins
    Beyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene Rivers
    Justice, Mercy, and Overcoming Racial Division with Claude Alexander and Mac Pier
    Healing a Divided Culture with Arthur Brooks
    After Babel with Andy Crouch and Johnathan Haidt
    Trust, Truth, and The Knowledge Crisis with Bonnie Kristian
    Hope in an Age of Anxiety with Curtis Chang & Curt Thompson
    Advent: the Season of Hope with Tish Harrison Warren


    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society

    Special thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.

    30 min
  • Advent: The Season of Hope with Tish Harrison Warren

    The season of Advent calls us to remember the incarnation of Christ into our world while anticipating his future return. Yet what does Advent have to tell us about our present “now and not yet” moment?


    In her new book Advent: The Season of Hope, priest, author, and Trinity Forum Senior Fellow Tish Harrison Warren draws our attention towards the ways the church reflects and represents the incarnation of Christ, and how our waiting can be transformed from drudgery to joy by the object of our hope:

    The only way that waiting can be transformed to this thing that is full of joy, that has anticipation, that is hopeful and not just drudgery or sorrow is if the character of the one we are waiting for, or who is asking us to wait in this case, is trustworthy, and if what we're waiting for is worth the wait. - Tish Harrison Warren

    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in December of 2023. Watch the full video of the conversation here. Learn more about Tish Harrison Warren.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    Liturgy of the Ordinary, by Tish Harrison Warren

    Prayer In the Night, by Tish Harrison Warren

    Advent: The Season of Hope, by Tish Harrison Warren

    Receiving the Day, by Dorothy Bass


    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    Bright Evening Star, by Madeleine L'Engle

    Why God Became Man, by Anselm of Canterbury

    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard

    The Strangest Story in the World, by G.K. Chesterton

    Handel's Messiah 

    Related Conversations:
    Rebuilding our Common Life with Yuval Levin
    The Challenge of Christian Nationalism with Mark Noll and Vincent Bacote
    The Decadent Society with Ross Douthat
    Science, Faith, Trust and Truth with Francis Collins
    Beyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene Rivers
    Justice, Mercy, and Overcoming Racial Division with Claude Alexander and Mac Pier
    Healing a Divided Culture with Arthur Brooks
    After Babel with Andy Crouch and Johnathan Haidt
    Trust, Truth, and The Knowledge Crisis with Bonnie Kristian
    Hope in an Age of Anxiety with Curtis Chang & Curt Thompson


    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society


    Special thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.

    35 min
  • How to Know a Person with David Brooks

    In a society where so many feel unseen and unknown, how do we become the kind of people who deeply see and know those around us? The conflict and division in our society demonstrate the need for people committed to pursuing human connection, even across lines of difference. What can we do – as individuals and in community – that will help us really understand the people in our lives?


    David Brooks, author of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, joined us to explore what it means to know others and to be known by them:

    When I ask people, tell me about a time you've been seen, they tell me with bright eyes and joy in their face, they tell me about time somebody totally got them. Because seeing someone, if I see potential in you, you'll see potential in yourself. If I beam my attention on you, you'll blossom. And so it's just super powerful to feel seen. But it's also powerful and fantastic to feel like you're the seer.

    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in 2023. Watch the full video of the conversation here. Learn more about David Brooks.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    Bobos in Paradise, On Paradise Drive, The Social Animal, The Road to Character, The Second Mountain, and How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, by David Brooks

    Frederick Buechner

    Iris Murdoch

    Dan McAdams

    Mónica Guzmán

    E. M. Foster

    Jennie Jerome

    William Gladstone

    Benjamin Disraeli

    Harry Nyquist

    Andy Crouch

    Michael Gerson

    Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl 

    Thornton Wilder

    Oprah Winfrey

    Kate Murphey


    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl

    Wrestling with God, by Simone Weil


    Related Conversations:
    Rebuilding our Common Life with Yuval Levin
    The Challenge of Christian Nationalism with Mark Noll and Vincent Bacote
    The Decadent Society with Ross Douthat
    Science, Faith, Trust and Truth with Francis Collins
    Beyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene Rivers
    Justice, Mercy, and Overcoming Racial Division with Claude Alexander and Mac Pier
    Healing a Divided Culture with Arthur Brooks
    After Babel with Andy Crouch and Johnathan Haidt
    Trust, Truth, and The Knowledge Crisis with Bonnie Kristian
    Hope in an Age of Anxiety with Curtis Chang & Curt Thompson


    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society


    Special thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.

    38 min
  • After Babel with Jonathan Haidt and Andy Crouch

    We were made for relationship — to be seen, loved, known, and committed to others. And yet we increasingly find ourselves, in the words of sociologist Jonathan Haidt, “disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth. We are cut off from one another and from the past.”

    On our podcast Haidt and bestselling author Andy Crouch pair up to explore how the technology era has seduced us with a false vision of human flourishing—and how each of us can fight back, and restore true community:

    “A person is a heart, soul, mind, strength, complex designed for love. And one of the really damaging things about our technology is very little of our technology develops all four of those qualities.” - Andy Crouch

    We hope you enjoy this conversation about the seismic effects technology has had on our personal relationships, civic institutions, and even democratic foundations — and how we might approach rethinking our technologies and reclaiming human connection.


    This podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in 2022. Watch the full video of the conversation here. Learn more about Jonathan Haidt and Andy Crouch.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt

    The Coddling of the American Mind, by Jonathan Haidt

    The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt

    Culture Making, by Andy Crouch

    Playing God, by Andy Crouch

    Strong and Weak, by Andy Crouch

    The TechWise Family, by Andy Crouch

    My TechWise Life, by Amy and Andy Crouch

    The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World, by Andy Crouch

    Ernest Hemingway

    Francis Bacon

    Howard Hotson

    Greg Lukianoff

    Wolfram Schultz

    The Sacred Canopy, by Peter L. Berger

    Epictetus

    Marcus Aurelius

    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    Brave New World, by Alduous Huxley

    Bulletins from Immortality: Poems by Emily Dickinson

    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard

    Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell

    The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt

    City of God, by St. Augustine of Hippo

    Children of Light and Children of Darkness by Reinhold Niebuhr

    On Happiness, by Thomas Aquinas


    Related Conversations:
    Rebuilding our Common Life with Yuval Levin
    The Challenge of Christian Nationalism with Mark Noll and Vincent Bacote
    The Decadent Society with Ross Douthat
    Science, Faith, Trust and Truth with Francis Collins
    Beyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene Rivers
    Justice, Mercy, and Overcoming Racial Division with Claude Alexander and Mac Pier
    Healing a Divided Culture with Arthur Brooks
    After Babel with Andy Crouch and Johnathan Haidt
    Trust, Truth, and The Knowledge Crisis with Bonnie Kristian
    Hope in an Age of Anxiety with Curtis Chang & Curt Thompson


    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society


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    44 min
  • Trust, Truth, and the Knowledge Crisis

    The question “How do I know what’s true?” comes up with increasing frequency and urgency in our time of angry polarization, deliberately-stoked outrage, and earned distrust. There is money to be made and a growing market for the kind of misinformation that reinforces our views and confirms our preconceptions — as well as a large price to be paid:

    “We like to tell ourselves that we're consuming this political media because we're going to be good citizens and we're going to be well informed and have, you know, very rational opinions and all sorts of flattering things like that. But in practice, what our behavior suggests is that that's not actually why we're consuming this media.

    “We're consuming it because of how it affects us emotionally and how it makes us feel better about ourselves than other people. How it excites us, how it sort of inflames us.” 

    Drawing on her experience as a journalist, Bonnie Kristian joined us in October 2022 to explore the sources that contribute to widespread confusion and conspiracy thinking. She offers insight into ways to combat misinformation and pursue truth in our own lives, families, and church communities, and we hope you’ll find this conversation encouraging, and practical.


    This podcast is an edited version of an evening conversation recorded in 2022. Watch the full video of the conversation here. Learn more about Bonnie Kristian.


    Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:

    A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What it Means to Follow Jesus Today, by Bonnie Kristian

    Untrustworthy: the Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community, by Bonnie Kristian

    Hannah Arendt

    N.T. Wright

    Thomas Aquinas


    Related Trinity Forum Readings:

    The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt

    City of God, by St. Augustine of Hippo

    Children of Light and Children of Darkness by Reinhold Niebuhr

    Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

    On Happiness, by Thomas Aquinas


    Related Conversations:
    Rebuilding our Common Life with Yuval Levin
    The Challenge of Christian Nationalism with Mark Noll and Vincent Bacote
    The Decadent Society with Ross Douthat
    Science, Faith, Trust and Truth with Francis Collins
    Beyond Ideology with Peter Kreeft and Eugene Rivers
    Justice, Mercy, and Overcoming Racial Division with Claude Alexander and Mac Pier
    Healing a Divided Culture with Arthur Brooks
    After Babel with Andy Crouch and Johnathan Haidt
    Trust, Truth, and The Knowledge Crisis with Bonnie Kristian
    Hope in an Age of Anxiety with Curtis Chang & Curt Thompson


    To listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the Trinity Forum Society and help make content like this possible, join the Trinity Forum Society


    Special thanks to Ned Bustard for our podcast artwork.

    34 min

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