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Slow Down!

FeatureTue 09 Feb 2010 • Responses: 4 • by T. M. Moore

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Maximizing the Moments of Life

In the first of a series, T. M. Moore looks at the ways poetry can help us pay attention to the individual moments of our too-hurried lives and see the beauty and truth we would otherwise miss.

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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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The Gift and the Warning

FeatureTue 24 Nov 2009 by Al Sikes

Lessons from the Bees

Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on his role as a beekeeper. True gratitude for God’s gift of nature includes learning to respect nature’s lessons.

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Before Clapham

FeatureFri 30 Oct 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Cherie Harder and Peter Edman

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The Legacy of Margaret Middleton

Lady Margaret Middleton is a nearly forgotten hero of abolition and a critical early influence on William Wilberforce through her networking, hospitality, and passion for justice.

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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

Roger Scruton

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 courage of faith

FeatureFri 28 Aug 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Al Sikes

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Reflections on the rise of Corazon Aquino

Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes remembers Corazon Aquino and the faith under fire that helped bring her to power.

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On Forswearing Greed

FeatureFri 24 Jul 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Al Sikes

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Oaths and the Greater Good

Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on the pledge taken by members of the Harvard Business School class of 2009.

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Opening Doors

FeatureSun 12 Jul 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Malcolm Briggs

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Responding to a Cut-Flower Society

Trinity Forum Trustee Malcolm Briggs asks us to recalibrate who and what we admire.

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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

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Forgiving Enemies in Northern Ireland

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Before Clapham

Secularism’s Special Pleading

The Importance of Gratitude

The courage of faith

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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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