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Items on religion in public life and social discourse

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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Faith, on the evidence

FeatureThu 07 May 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Al Sikes

Confronting the unknown

Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on faith and evidence.

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Choosing a New Way

FeatureMon 13 Apr 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Al Sikes

The President’s perilous moment

Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes looks at the challenge of leadership that the President faces given current partisanship.

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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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Sunday Mornings

FeatureThu 19 Feb 2009 by Al Sikes

Brooklyn Bridge

Save your suspension of disbelief for novels and the theater

Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on two forums that are active on Sunday.

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Citizens of the World Unite?

A ReviewWed 11 Feb 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Pete Peterson

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Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy by Natan Sharansky (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008), 304 pages.

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Inaugural Day 2009

FeatureFri 23 Jan 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Al Sikes

The opportunity for more than a transitional moment

Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on the Obama Inauguration.

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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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Loconte on Niebuhr in Books & Culture

Mon 01 Dec 2008 by TTF Staff

Senior Fellow Joseph Loconte has a review essay in the November/December 2008 issue of Books and Culture on the new edition of Reinhold Niebuhr’s The Irony of American History. “The Irony of American Politics”:

Nevertheless, many Niebuhr admirers have a disposition that blunts much of his message. They have fastened onto his critique of America's national foibles and used it like an axe to dismember U.S. foreign policy under the Bush Administration. Remarkably, they tend to ignore the religious core of Niebuhr's political thought: his Christian understanding of the tragedy of human nature. It was this German-born theologian, after all, who tried to reclaim the biblical doctrine of original sin during the inter-war period.

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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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