
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

The Trinity Forum | “There is no doubt whatever about the influence of architecture and structure upon human character and action. We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.” —Winston Churchill, 1924

The Trinity Forum | “Work and life have a strange reciprocal relationship: only if man works can he live, but only if the work he does seems productive and meaningful can he bear the life that his work makes possible.” —Langdon Gilkey, Shantung Compound

In this update we feature a noteworthy article from Hunter Baker adapted from his new book, The End of Secularism. We also report on some recent Trinity Forum events in Colorado.

The Board of Trustees of the Trinity Forum has named Price Harding as a new Trustee. He attended his first board meeting in late September. Mr. Harding is Managing Partner of the Atlanta-based executive search firm CarterBaldwin and previously served on the Trinity Forum’s Board of Advisors. ...

The Trinity Forum | “This is the practice which the parson so much commends to all his fellow-laborers; the secret of whose good consists in this, that at sermons and prayers men may sleep or wander; but when one is asked a question, he must discover what he is.” —George Herbert, The Country Parson (1652), on the Socratic method

The Trinity Forum We've posted a new article from Hunter Baker on the continuing efforts to create a naked public square. What ever happened to persuasion? http://bit.ly/1M2XYY
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