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Three Readings Reprints

We are bringing three Trinity Forum Readings booklets back into print.

• Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl and Foreword by Al McDonald
• The Wager and other selections from the Pensées by Blaise Pascal with commentary from Peter Kreeft and Foreword by Os Guinness.
• To Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington and Religious Liberty by Paul Boller and foreword by Al McDonald.

Each is newly formatted, set in larger type, and includes a group discussion guide. They are available in early March from our online store.

Mar 2008

Cherie Harder Named President of The Trinity Forum

Cherie Harder has been named President of The Trinity Forum. Ms. Harder joins the nonprofit leadership academy from the White House, where she has served as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Policy and Projects for First Lady Laura Bush. She will assume her new responsibilities on March 17, based in the organization’s offices in Georgetown.

Making the announcement Al Sikes, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, said that “Cherie Harder’s rich experience and leadership talent are just the right combination for The Trinity Forum. She is perfectly suited to lead an organization that works at the confluence of faith and wisdom.”

Before coming to the First Lady’s office in early 2007, Ms. Harder served as Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist from 2005 to 2006, where she advised the Leader on domestic social issues and served as liaison and outreach director to outside groups. From 2001 to 2005, she was the Senior Counselor to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), where she helped the Chairman design and launch the NEH and Bush Administration’s “We the People” initiative to enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history. Prior to that Ms. Harder was the Policy Director for Senator Sam Brownback and also served as Deputy Policy Director at Empower America.

Ms. Harder holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University and a post-graduate diploma in literature from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where she was a Rotary Scholar.

Ms. Harder will succeed Executive Director Luder G. Whitlock, Jr., who has led the organization since 2003. The Board has named Dr. Whitlock a Senior Fellow and looks forward to his continued participation in Trinity Forum activities, said Mr. Sikes. Dr. Whitlock’s immediate plans include writing two books and working with Excelsis, an Orlando-based nonprofit.

Mr. Sikes noted that Dr. Whitlock “leaves The Trinity Forum in a healthy condition in every way. We are particularly grateful for his work on organizational stability, expanding the ranks of our Senior Fellows, and beginning our online Provocations journal. He has set the stage for significant growth and we are very excited about our opportunities as we move toward our twentieth anniversary and beyond under the leadership of Cherie Harder.”

• High-resolution photograph of Cherie Harder (JPEG, 588k, 240 dpi)
• Press Release, PDF Format, 48K
• Press Release, DOC Format, 128K
• Additional Biographical Details on Cherie Harder

Feb 2008

Spring 2008 Reading—Chesterton

The Spring 2008 edition of The Trinity Forum Reading will be “The Oracle of the Dog” a short story by G. K. Chesterton featuring his famous detective, Father Brown. The Foreword will be written by Trinity Forum Senior Fellow P. Douglas Wilson. The Reading will include a discussion guide and will be released in late April.

Feb 2008

Francis Collins Named Senior Fellow

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., has been named a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum. Dr. Collins is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. (He takes on the role of Senior Fellow in a private capacity.)

He is a scientist renowned for his contributions to finding the genetic basis of disease, including identifying the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis and Huntington’s disease, and for his leadership of the Human Genome Project. Among his books are Principles of Medical Genetics (1998) and The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2006).

Jan 2008

Journal name change

Our online journal has been renamed to Provocations to match the title of our short commentary series. No changes are necessary for bookmarks or other subscriptions. 

Nov 2007

Winter 2007 Reading: Malcolm Muggeridge

The winter 2007 Trinity Forum Reading selection is “A Spiritual Pilgrimage” by Malcolm Muggeridge. Two chapters from Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim—his final autobiography—are introduced by Alonzo L. McDonald, Senior Fellow and Founding Chairman of The Trinity Forum.

Muggeridge (1903–1990) was, at various points in his life, a teacher, journalist, soldier-spy, foreign correspondent, television personality, pilgrim, and public voice for Jesus. McDonald summarizes the story of a full life—often excessive, generally unconventional, with adventures on every continent—and presents Muggeridge to us as a twentieth-century “everyman” following a path as old as Solomon’s in Ecclesiastes.

Muggeridge’s Conversion is an autobiography written largely in the third person and in a style that evokes Augustine’s Confessions. In it, he looks back on his life from the perspective of a late convert to the Christian faith, retelling his journey and some of the lessons learned. Our selections focus on his conversion as well as on his deeply moving and provocative meditations on the prospect of death. This brief Reading offers an opportunity to step back and see one life in full perspective, which may offer us not only questions to consider but a glimpse of a path we might want to explore.

This Reading has a white cover with gold foil lettering and includes a discussion guide and suggestions for further reading. It will be available at the beginning of December 2007.

Nov 2007

TTF U.S. Office Move to Georgetown

On September 1, 2007, The Trinity Forum moved its U.S. office to the Evermay estate in Georgetown.

Our official address will be:

We will also continue use of our mailbox in McLean, Virginia:

Aug 2007

Rome Hartman Named Senior Fellow

Rome Hartman, an award-winning broadcast journalist and executive producer at BBC World News, has been named a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum.

Mr. Hartman recently joined the Washington bureau of the BBC. He will produce a new nightly newscast for BBC AMERICA and the BBC World Channel, to premiere this fall. He joined the BBC after nearly twenty-five years at CBS News, most recently as executive producer for the CBS Evening News, and including fourteen years as a producer at 60 Minutes, where he earned two Emmy Awards. He and his family live outside Washington, DC.

Aug 2007