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Original items from the Trinity Forum
Tue 09 Feb 2010 • Responses: 4 • by T. M. Moore
Wed 06 Jan 2010 by Nigel Biggar
Tue 05 Jan 2010 by Jonathan Aitken
Tue 24 Nov 2009 by Al Sikes
Fri 30 Oct 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Cherie Harder and Peter Edman
Mon 05 Oct 2009 • Responses: 3 • by Hunter Baker
Wed 02 Sep 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Roger Scruton
Fri 28 Aug 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Al Sikes
Fri 24 Jul 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Al Sikes
Sun 12 Jul 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Malcolm Briggs
So important is humor in our effort to understand the mystery of existence that we have reason to doubt the excellence of a philosopher who does not exhibit, at some point, a humorous vein. Particularly should we doubt the philosopher who takes himself so seriously that he cannot laugh at his own pretensions. It is not sacrilegious to call humor the “jovial.” To laugh is to see beyond the transitoriness of events, and thus to be Olympian or Jovelike.
D. Elton Trueblood, The Humor of Christ
Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge by Dallas Willard.
A rigorous and compelling defense of the ways Christian faith is more than personal preference or private morality: it is, like science or philosophy, a source of real and reliable public knowledge about the world.
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)
• Welcome, National Affairs (2009 09 08)
• Looking for an Honest Man (2009 09 08)
• Why AI is a dangerous dream (2009 09 08)
• Restoring the Fresco of Progress (2009 08 28)
• The Case for Working With Your Hands (2009 06 04)
Classic Texts and the Nature of Authority by Donald and Louise Cowan, eds..