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Openings for 2010 Internships
The Trinity Forum has competitive openings for highly substantive fall and winter internships at our Washington, DC headquarters. Internships are voluntary (unpaid) and offer candidates an extraordinary opportunity for experience in fulfilling the mission and initiatives of the Trinity Forum. We especially seek candidates with skills in one or more of the following areas: web/print design, marketing, fundraising/development, database management, writing, and research.
Interns will work alongside staff on essential projects and will see the results of their work incorporated into the operations of the Trinity Forum. For graduate and post-graduate students, the internship will also include the opportunity to develop and implement a substantive, long-term project that will match their interests with the needs of the organization.
The Trinity Forum’s DC office is located in the center of downtown Washington, DC, at 2011 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, and is easily accessible by Metro and bus. Interns are expected to secure their own housing arrangements. Full-time as well as part-time internships are available.
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Aug 2010
Summer Reading—Democracy in America
Our Summer 2010 Reading is selections from Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic work of political analysis, Democracy in America, with a Foreword by our Founding Chairman Alonzo L. McDonald.
Tocqueville famously found three reasons for America’s success: its circumstances and geography, its government structures and laws, and its unique customs. Of these, he emphasized, the customs—the “habits of the heart” of the American people—were by far the most important. He traced America’s unique national character directly to the role of faith (itself freed from government control) in the young republic.
Tocqueville also saw dangers in the American experiment. He was particularly concerned about the possibility of its democracy following others into despotism too, whether from the tyranny of a majority or the natural tendencies of government to centralize control. It is from these dangers to liberty that he turns again to religion:
“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot . . . How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed?”
His concerns are prescient even for our own day, for underneath our current political struggles lie questions of the proper balance between liberty and equality and of the proper role of government. In such a context, we should celebrate and defend our liberties by reflecting on their sources, and Tocqueville’s view of the necessary connection between freedom and faith is indispensable in such a task.
The Reading is 48 pages and includes a group discussion guide. Members of the Trinity Forum Society will be receiving their copies in the mail shortly. If you are not a Society member, join today! You can also order copies for yourself or your small group from our online store.
Jun 2010
Volunteer Opportunities
We’re looking for a few good volunteers to further the mission and work of the Trinity Forum! If you have time and talent, we’d love for you to join us.
We are particularly interested in volunteers with skills in the following areas:
- Graphic design
- Desktop Publishing (particularly those with InDesign skills)
- Web design
- Marketing
- Archiving
- Grant writing
- Foundation research
- Photography
- Videography
We would love to have you join us and contribute to special projects in our Washington office. In addition, we are seeking volunteers to help with our Washington, DC events, or general tasks around the office. For details see below. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Drew Cleveland at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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Jun 2010
Spring Reading from Simon Wiesenthal
The Spring Trinity Forum Reading is a special tenth anniversary reprint of The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal. Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter, tells a story that honestly faces up to the need and cost of forgiveness.
We first released this fascinating Reading a decade ago. It has since sold out, and we are bringing an enhanced and updated edition back by popular demand. This new edition features an updated Foreword by Os Guinness and a new discussion guide and recommended resources to assist in small group discussions. Also new is a Preface by Laura Waters Hinson, the award-winning producer and director whose documentary As We Forgive opens a window into the hard but amazing process of forgiveness and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda.
Copies will be sent to members of the Trinity Forum Society and are also available for sale from our Online Store. Quantity discounts will apply.
Apr 2010
Four Reprints
We have just released new printings of two of our popular Trinity Forum Reading booklets—our first title, Leo Tolstoy’s Two Old Men and Victor Hugo’s The Purchase of a Soul (from Les Misérables). Both titles now include discussion guides and come in our new, smaller size. (Our best-selling William Wilberforce: A Man Who Changed His Times by John Pollock has also recently been reprinted.)
In addition, the Study Series edition of When No One Sees, our curriculum on character, is now available again, as is the discounted Study Series collection.
You can order these and other titles at our online store.
Dec 2009
New Reading Booklet and Gift Collections
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 Reading features excerpts from The Everlasting Man, Chesterton’s celebrated and unconventional take on human history.
The Everlasting Man was first released in 1925 and has had an enduring influence—not least as a primary intellectual milestone in the conversion of C. S. Lewis. Our selections include Chesterton’s main arguments that focus on two things that are “altogether strange and unique” in our experience: “The first of these is the creature called man, and the second is the man called Christ.” He follows humanity from the first evidences of the cave-man to the birth of Christ—“the God in the cave” at Bethlehem—and the dawn of a new world. As McDonald reminds us in his Foreword, “this is, as Chesterton readily admits, the strangest story in the world, made stranger still by the history of the church that has followed.”
The booklet is 40 pages and includes a discussion guide. It will be shipping in November 2009. You can order copies now at our online store.
We are also pleased to introduce three small thematic collections of our Trinity Forum Readings booklets—Great Questions, Great Answers, and Great Courage. The new collections are priced at $20 or less and join our other discounted Readings sets—Great Stories, Great Thoughts, Great Lives, and the full collections of in-print Readings. Don’t forget that the larger Great Stories, Great Thoughts, and Great Lives collections also include one of our elegant slipcases.
The Great Questions Collection offers five titles that raise the deep human questions while leaving space for answers to emerge. The Great Answers Collection includes five Readings about Jesus. And the Great Courage Collection focuses on faith that can endure deep trials. You can read more about these collections and our other resources at our online store.
Nov 2009
Price Harding joins Trinity Forum Board
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. Making the announcement, Trinity Forum President Cherie Harder said, “We are delighted to welcome Price to the Board. His energy and experience will be a valuable addition to further our mission and strengthen our operations.”
Oct 2009
DC Office Move
The Trinity Forum has a new office! We are moving our U.S. office a few blocks down the street to 2011 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 250, Washington DC 20006. Our phone and fax numbers and our McLean postal address remain unchanged.
We are sorry to leave our friends at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and thank them for their hospitality. And we look forward to welcoming our friends and visitors in our new location!
Sep 2009
