Public Square
Items on religion in public life and social discourse
Before Clapham
Fri 30 Oct 2009 • Responses: 2 • by Cherie Harder and Peter Edman
![Photo: Colin Smith [Wikipedia], CC License](http://www.ttf.org/images/barham-court.jpg "Barham Court, Teston, Kent, UK")
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.
Secularism’s Special Pleading
Mon 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?
Faith, on the evidence
Thu 07 May 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Al Sikes
Confronting the unknown
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on faith and evidence.
Choosing a New Way
Mon 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.
The Selfish Gene Delusion
Mon 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.
Sunday Mornings
Thu 19 Feb 2009 by Al Sikes
Save your suspension of disbelief for novels and the theater
Trinity Forum Chairman Al Sikes reflects on two forums that are active on Sunday.
Citizens of the World Unite?
Wed 11 Feb 2009 • Responses: 1 • by Pete Peterson
Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy by Natan Sharansky (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008), 304 pages.
Inaugural Day 2009
Fri 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.
Obama’s Election, Race, and the Bible
Thu 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.
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.
