Crown Faiths and Worldviews

Items on religions, ideologies, philosophies, and other ways people interpret the world

Forgiving Enemies in Northern Ireland

FeatureWed 06 Jan 2010 by Nigel Biggar

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Spiritual Self-preservation, Absolution, and Compassion

Professor Nigel Biggar presented this talk on his understanding of reconciliation and its specific application at an evening event for the Westminster Forum of Trinity Forum Europe in December 2009.

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A Comeback for Faith in the UK

FeatureTue 05 Jan 2010 by Jonathan Aitken

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New spiritual interest emerging from the rubble of arrogant materialism

Jonathan Aitken, Executive Director of the Trinity Forum in Europe, reports on a rise of faith to deal with an age of anxiety in this piece written for the Daily Mail.

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Secularism’s Special Pleading

FeatureMon 05 Oct 2009 • Responses: 3 • by Hunter Baker

Wishing for the Naked Public Square

Hunter Baker looks at efforts to enforce a strict secularism in public discourse. Why would we need to prohibit people from using any public argument they wish to offer?

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The Importance of Gratitude

FeatureWed 02 Sep 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Roger Scruton

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Moving from charity to justice—from gift to rights—has social costs

Senior Fellow Roger Scruton reflects on the nature of gratitude and the cultural costs of ingratitude. When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims.

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The Romance of Socialism

FeatureThu 19 Mar 2009 by Micah Mattix

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Lessons from Hawthorne’s ‘The Blithedale Romance’

Micah Mattix turns to Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel about a utopian farming experiment in the 1840s for insight into current social challenges.

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Integrity in Science

FeatureFri 13 Mar 2009 by Cherie Harder

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Human experience is larger than science can describe

Trinity Forum President Cherie Harder reflects on ideology and science. Scientific integrity includes a recognition of the limits of an analytical approach to life.

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The Selfish Gene Delusion

FeatureMon 23 Feb 2009 by Nicholas Beale

Science and Religion in a Post-Dawkins Phase

Nicholas Beale, co-author of a new book with John Polkinghorne, looks at the climate for public discussion of science and religion (and how they hope to change it) as Richard Dawkins moves into retirement.

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Obama’s Election, Race, and the Bible

FeatureThu 15 Jan 2009 by Vishal Mangalwadi

Through Indian Eyes

Vishal Mangalwadi looks at one of the underlying reasons that Barack Obama was elected: the American cultural DNA derived from the Bible is what makes it “self-evident” that all people are created equal.

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Secrets Buried in Platitudes

Mon 15 Dec 2008 by Peter Edman

An Advent reflection.

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Preparing recently for Advent and Christmas, I was thinking about how much I enjoy running across a good quotation. It’s always gratifying to find someone who can express themselves in a pithy or memorable manner, particularly if they can in the process help us look at the world in a fresh way. Four quotations from the past year stood out for me particularly.

One is from an interview the novelist Walker Percy did toward the end of his life, collected in the book Signposts in a Strange Land. He was asked the secret of the success of his marriage. His answer helps us see something about the world:

There is no secret. Or rather, the secrets are buried in platitudes. That is to say, it has something to do with love, commitment, and family.

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Manger Wetter

FeatureMon 15 Dec 2008 • Responses: 2 • by Dan Russ

Coming to Terms with Our Neediness

In this excerpt from his book, Flesh-and-Blood Jesus, Senior Fellow Dan Russ helps us reflect on the scandal and the joy of the birth and humanity of Jesus.

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Apparently, even when we have all the available facts, we may still have an incomplete sum of truth. Tangible evidence, plus established authority, plus unshakeable and self-evident theorizing, can add up to nonsense.

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President Obama’s Proposals for a Second Fiscal Stimulus: Senior Fellow Prabhu Guptara: “Is there anything short of divine miracles which will be good for job creation, good for the small business sector, good for the economy as a whole, and good for President Obama?” (Renaissance: Insights for Action in Today’s World • 2010 02 09)

How the Victoria and Albert Museum dealt with the dying of Christianity: “This situation is unprecedented in western civilisation: even 50 years ago, when these galleries of one of the richest collections in the world were last displayed in the V&A, they could assume that everyone was familiar with the rudiments of Christianity. Now, in a twinkling of an eye, 2,000 years of culture in the profoundest meaning of the word have been largely forgotten.” (Anna Somers Cocks, The Art Newspaper, December 2009 • 2010 01 05)

The God that Fails: David Brooks: “Many people seem to be in the middle of a religious crisis of faith. All the gods they believe in — technology, technocracy, centralized government control — have failed them in this instance.” (New York Times, December 31, 2009 • 2010 01 05)

From Winchester to Westminster: Jonathan Aitken discusses Sir John Templeton recently in the American Spectator; here’s a quote from the late philanthropist on gratitude: “Thanksgiving opens the door to spiritual growth. If there is any day in our life which is not thanksgiving day, then we are not fully alive. Counting our blessing attracts blessings. Counting our blessings each morning starts a day full of blessings. Thanksgiving brings God’s bounty. From gratitude comes riches—from complaints, poverty. Thankfulness opens the door to happiness. Thanksgiving causes giving. Thanksgiving puts our mind in tune with the Infinite. Continual gratitude dissolves our worries.” (The American Spectator • 2009 09 11)

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