Items related to Trinity Forum, Implications, and our other publications
Tue 20 Nov 2007 by TTF Staff
We are changing the title of our online journal from Implications to Provocations.
No URLs or bookmarks need to be changed.
Sun 27 Aug 2006 by TTF Staff
Provocations is the online journal and weblog of The Trinity Forum.
Just as ideas have consequences, so faith has implications for life. Our journal is designed to provoke reflection and conversation on faith’s implications for the way we think and act in all the various spheres of life, public and private.
We operate from a broadly Christian perspective, but as with all the activities of The Trinity Forum, we welcome participation from people of all faiths as well as seekers and skeptics.
Tue 01 Aug 2006 by TTF Staff
We have renamed our weblog/online journal from Findings to Implications.
The name change is to make clear that (as of now) it’s not just us finding good stuff for you; we will focus too on responses and contributions from you, our Fellows, alumni, and other friends. And of course, Implications is a reminder that the faiths we hold (whether religious or secular) have implications for all areas of life. We welcome your conversations.
We are in beta mode for the summer, but comments are now enabled and you can expect fresh content and other announcements soon (including more e-mail services).
Comments are currently limited to 2000 characters and are moderated for people who are not members of the website (see the sidebar).
All the old links will work for a while, but we suggest you update your bookmarks and RSS feeds. Please let us know if you find any dead links.
Thu 06 Jul 2006 by TTF Staff
We’ve moved the discussion guides for our Readings booklets into the Resources section where they belong. You can see now which of our Trinity Forum Readings have a Discussion Guide by looking at the list; the ones with guides are marked with an asterisk, and the (new!) Readings item detail will tell you whether they are available as part of the booklet or as a PDF.
As always, if you need a discussion guide for a different reading, .
Mon 28 Nov 2005 by TTF Staff
We are adding a new category of resource to our Implications offerings.
Our new topical reading lists will help you sort through the masses of books and articles on different topics. We will be adding several over the next few months with selections by Fellows, Moderators, and staff. If you have ideas for topics you’d like to see us cover or if you would like to suggest an additional book or movie to a topical list we’ve already created, please .
Additionally, if you order books from Amazon through these links, the Trinity Forum will receive a small commission on each sale.
Thu 26 May 2005 by TTF Staff
Findings is the old name of a weblog and online journal on faith and life from The Trinity Forum.
We are under active development this summer. You can see our new home page here.
We will feature items by and about our Senior Fellows, reviews of books and films, snippets from our ongoing research, and other items that will help leaders address the issues of their daily lives (public and private) in light of the great ideas of Western civilization and the perspectives of faith.
This is also the place we will post reading lists to help you dig deeper on topics related to our interests and our other resources.
Our primary goal here is to provide fodder for thought and conversation. We also intend to include practical ideas to help you apply our materials in different contexts as well as models for what the examined life can look like in practice.
Disclaimer: Postings on Implications are the responsibility of the poster or author and any opinions therein do not necessarily reflect the views of the Trinity Forum or its Trustees, Fellows, or Moderators.
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Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
A Cultural Manifesto and Showcase
China, Tibet, and the Olympics
The Oracle of the Dog by G. K. Chesterton, Foreword by P. Douglas Wilson.
A Father Brown mystery story that addresses themes of character, listening, and false assumptions.
Orthodoxy: Georgetown’s Father Schall reviews G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy on its 100 year anniversary. “In coming to believe in Christianity, Chesterton, as he tells us, did not read a single Christian book in the process. Rather, he read book after book of those who maintained that Christianity could not possibly be true. After he had read many of these tractates, he suddenly realized that the intellectual opponents of Christianity were constantly contradicting themselves about what they were opposing. Chesterton, the most logical of men, figured that anything so odd as to be opposed for the exact opposite reasons must either be quite strange or, in fact, rather normal and true.” A helpful introduction to a lovely book. (James V. Schall, SJ, InsideCatholic.com , 2008 05 05)
Where Were Obama’s Friends?: Friendship under fire: “As for the supersized candidates, what strikes one most about them is their ‘aloneness.’ They look so solitary. Indeed, it is possible that the old and honorable notion of ‘standing with’ a candidate like Obama simply didn’t occur to his famous supporters this week. Everyone has become used to watching celebrity stars and athletes take it in the neck on their own. Even someone running for the nation’s presidency looks like just another personal crack-up.” Makes one pause. (Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal , 2008 05 01)
There’s no way you’re going to convince me: Catholic professor Scott Carson covers the current debates on evil between N T Wright and Bart Ehrman on Beliefnet: “[H]aving had a look at this most recent exchange I have to say that it continues to astound me how simplistic and thoughtless the popular treatment of the problem has become. . . . It’s as if generations of sophisticated and complex theological and philosophical argument amount to nothing when compared to the emotional attitudes of a single individual living in a highly particularized time and place. . . . Just as atheists and agnostics are often—perhaps way too often—tempted to assume that believers only believe for emotional or psychological reasons, so too, it seems rather obvious to me, every non-believer almost certainly has emotional and psychological reasons for not believing that will trump any and every legitimate argument posed against them.” (extensive links from the article to the primary sources) (An Examined Life , 2008 04 27)
The Way We Weren’t: “The fifties really were a time when the culture broadly affirmed Christianity as a Good Thing. I was there. I saw it; I heard it. And yet some kind of demurral is strongly indicated: some sign of recognition that no human society, whatever its good intentions and methods, has lived unburdened, unencumbered by the crushing weight of human fallenness. Good as life may appear to have been in the cities and universities of France and Italy in the thirteenth century, or amid the sweaty fervor of the camp meetings in nineteenth-century America, or among the fierce faith of the emancipators, always human pride and general nuttiness were there to spoil the broth.” (William Murchison, in Touchstone , 2008 04 23)
• Not on Sale (2008 04 14)
• Seven New Deadly Sins, Suitably Updated (2008 04 10)
• The Pope Comes to America (2008 04 09)
• Both Read the Same Bible (2008 04 09)
• Muslims Outnumber World’s Catholics (2008 03 31)