Whether you are a long-time friend of the Trinity Forum or visiting our website and learning about us for the first time, please enjoy this short video highlighting the exciting work of the Forum as we seek to connect thinking leaders with leading thinkers.
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Last week, Trinity Forum Senior Fellow Dallas Willard died, just a couple of days after publicly confirming a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. He was 77, and leaves behind his wife of many years, Jane, two children, a grandchild, and legions of friends, students, colleagues, and readers who will forever be grateful for the life, example, thought, and work of this extraordinary and humble man.
Dallas served as a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California (USC) for the past 40 years, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum for the past decade. He was a best-selling and prolific author, an ordained minister, an extraordinary thinker, and a gifted translator of philosophy and theology to the curious and thoughtful layman.
But he may be best known for the manner in which he helped so many better know God. He was a passionate advocate for intentional spiritual formation and discipleship, and focused much of his thought and writing on helping the faithful realize “the kingdom of God” – or what he called “the with-God life.”
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Dallas also sought to deepen (and as appropriate, correct) the public understanding of knowledge itself. His philosophical publications were concentrated in the areas of epistemology, and the philosophy of mind and logic, and he applied his scholarly insights to the assumptions and fashions of thought of our time. Against the widespread cultural presumption that the scientific or empirical is the only reliable,...
One way we seek to encourage the formation of the communities of thoughtful leaders that change culture is through encouraging and catalyzing discussion groups around the great ideas and great questions.
Already, there are new groups meeting around the country to join together for reflection, reading, and discussion. They make time to talk about what matters most. They come to know - and be enriched by - the great literature of history. And they grow in their faith as they learn to recognize and integrate the reality of the day-to-day with enduring truths.
Now, we have a new opportunity to make it even easier to launch a reading and discussion group! Our new Reading Group Starter Kit takes all of the guesswork and administrative hassle out of forming and leading a reading group.
Our Starter Kit provides easy how-to guides for planning and hosting regular meetings, guidelines for group facilitation, thought pieces on the importance of reading, story, and group discussion; discounts for Readings, and invitation templates and administrative help in sending invitations and registering participants.
Click here to learn more. Visit our online store to check out our Reading Group Starter Kits.
If you have other questions or want to discuss any of this in more depth simply contact Luci Laffitte, Trinity Forum Events Coordinator, at llaffitte@ttf.org or 202.944.9881.
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