Sightings
Items by or about Trinity Forum Fellows, Moderators, and other friends
Guroian on Speaking of Faith
Fri 06 Apr 2007 by TTF Staff
Senior Fellow Vigen Guroian is featured on the Good Friday edition of Public Radio’s Speaking of Faith.
The program is entitled “Restoring the Senses: Life, Gardening, and an Orthodox Easter” Topics touch on history, theology, liturgy, gardening, and literature—including the Chronicles of Narnia.
“Theologian Vigen Guroian experiences Easter as ‘a call to our senses.’ We’ll explore his Eastern Orthodox sensibility that is at once more mystical and more earthy than the Christianity dominant in Western culture. And at this time of year and beyond, Vigen Guroian does real theology in his garden as richly as in church.”
The program’s website includes audio (MP3, streaming, and podcast) as well as selected excerpts from Dr. Guroian’s writings and other resources. It will make a good meditation on this Good Friday and Easter weekend and includes some wonderful music.
Worries About Europe
Wed 13 Dec 2006 by Al McDonald
A response from the founding chairman of the Trinity Forum.
Dear Trinity Forum Friends:
This is to commend the fine essay by David Aikman on “Civilization and Crisis and Europe’s Choices.” It is a superbly reasoned piece that I fully endorse. My only reservation is that the threat of Islamic extremism is certainly as grave as David suggests and he may have even understated the danger.
My worries about Europe are even greater than David’s expressed concerns. I suspect Europe’s only chance to counter the infiltration and ultimate force of the Islamic youth movement and immigration is with a solid Christian revival as David mentioned has happened before historically. Yet, at the moment I see little acceptance in Europe by the general public or governmental officials of Christianity or even its basic tenets, ignoring almost completely the deep Christian roots that have shaped Europe’s enormous success near the pinnacle of civilization for many generations.
Kreeft Audio from Academy Week Away
Thu 16 Nov 2006 by TTF Staff
Peter Kreeft’s website is now making available MP3 audio from (some of) his talks at an Academy Week Away event in June 2005 where he talked about the worldview revealed in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
The lectures include question-and-answer time and feature material from Kreeft’s book, The Philosophy of Tolkien.
- Fated and Free—integration of predestination and freewill; an insightful perspective via Lord of the Rings
- Identity—The paradoxical nature of self
- Language of Beauty—Prose that no writer will want to miss! The power of words revealed by Lord of the Rings
Lennox on Dawkins
Tue 14 Nov 2006 by TTF Staff
Senior Fellow John Lennox has a downloadable audio lecture and seminar discussing Richard Dawkins and his views on God, religion, and science.
The 2005 lecture is an MP3 hosted at bethinking.org. It’s 29 MB and runs over two hours, including questions and answers.
Cromartie and Loconte on Evangelicals in the Washington Post
Thu 09 Nov 2006 by TTF Staff
Senior Fellows Michael Cromartie and Joseph Loconte have an op-ed in the 8 November 2006 Washington Post.
“Let’s Stop Stereotyping Evangelicals”:
Of course it’s true that a handful of Christian figures reinforce the worst stereotypes of the movement. Their loopy and triumphalist claims are seized upon by lazy journalists and the direct-mail operatives of political opponents.
Yet it is dishonest to disparage the massive civic and democratic contribution of evangelicals by invoking the excesses of a tiny few.
Russ Talk on Imagination
Wed 25 Oct 2006 by TTF Staff
Senior Fellow Dan Russ spoke in 2005 at a Texas conference on the Inklings.
Audio (MP3) from his two lectures is available at SermonAudio.com. The talks are titled “Theology of the Imagination” and “Theology thru the Imagination: The Works of C.S. Lewis”
Speaking of Civility
Thu 20 Jul 2006 by Peter Edman
Speaking of the tone of the stem cell debate, Senior Fellow Joseph Loconte has a piece in today’s National Review Online on the topic.
He manages to find an opponent of the President’s decision that is speaking responsibly—a sharp and depressing contrast with most of their fellows on this issue.
Hassett Sanchez on Storefront Churches
Mon 17 Jul 2006 by TTF Staff
Senior Fellow Jody Hassett Sanchez has a feature segment on the July 14, 2006 episode of the PBS program Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.
The topic is Storefront Churches that operate in poor urban neighborhoods. You can read a transcript and view the segment here.
Aikman on European Anti-Semitism
Fri 09 Jun 2006 by TTF Staff
Senior Fellow David Aikman has an important article on anti-Semitism in Europe in the current Christianity Today.
The article is titled “An Ugly Phoenix Reborn: European anti-Semitism is more widespread than has been let on.”
Hassett Buechner Panel Recording
Thu 20 Apr 2006 by TTF Staff
Senior Fellow Jody Hassett Sanchez moderated the response panel at the April 2006 tribute to Frederick Buechner at the Washington National Cathedral. Links to the audio or video are available here. At the event Buechner read from two of his sermons and the panel talked about preaching, truth, imagination, and the power of words among other subjects.
