
This update focuses on our year-end offerings—the new Chesterton Reading, new Readings collections, and an exciting new option for gift memberships to the Trinity Forum Society—different ways to join in the great conversation on life’s deepest questions that are also creative and thoughtful gift ...

The newest Trinity Forum Reading is The Strangest Story in the World by G. K. Chesterton with a foreword by the Trinity Forum’s Founding Chairman and Senior Fellow, Alonzo L. McDonald. ...

The Trinity Forum | "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." —C.S. Lewis (thanks to Michael Cromartie )

David Theroux "Recollections on Life with C.S. Lewis": A new interview with Walter Hooper, author and trustee of the literary estate of C.S. Lewis: http://tinyurl.com/ylxoz75

The Trinity Forum Greg Wolfe of Image Journal on Georges Rouault & Makoto Fujimura: Soliloquies exhibit at Dillon http://bit.ly/4apTz6
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Many readers of Commonweal are familiar with the great twentieth-century Catholic painter, Georges Rouault — the contemporary of Matisse and Picasso whose oeuvre combined elements of medieval stained glass and highly modern, Fauvist art. ...

The Trinity Forum | “Before we can pretend to do anything about the present, we must know what we are, what the world is, and yes, what God is. Construction of a civilization that knows little or nothing of these deeper realities can only make things worse.” —James Schall SJ introducing Josef Pieper [http://bit.ly/1zDBFo]

The Trinity Forum | “Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood; falsehood, its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose falsehood as his PRINCIPLE. . . . And the simple step of a simple courageous man is not to partake in falsehood, not to support false actions!” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1970 Nobel address

Charles Brown Imitating the incarnation. Is there a greater challenge?

The Trinity Forum | “The famous saying ‘God is love’, it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the ‘otherness’ and terror of God.” —Charles Williams

Bob Simpson Hi All, are there any members amongst you all who are in Ausralia, and particularly in the media? Bob Simpson, TWR - Australia

The Trinity Forum "God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright." —Richard Hooker, on grace and our understanding of theology (c. 1595)

This update begins with the story of Lady Margaret Middleton, an early influence on William Wilberforce. We also announce our year-end Reading from G. K. Chesterton and three upcoming events.

The Trinity Forum The average American, on having a vision of a demon, is more likely to call a psychiatrist than an exorcist.… It is, after all, possible that the individual who cannot conceive of demons is making a big mistake … It is possible that modern consciousness, while expanding man’s awareness of some aspects of the universe, has made him lose sight of other aspects that are equally real. —Peter Berger, Heretical Imperative

The Trinity Forum "Unless we deliberately cultivate the loves we have chosen … our mind and imagination will turn traitor." Gerard Wegemer, summarizing a point from Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, 1557




















