The Trinity Forum Readings
Great Stories. Great Thoughts. Great Lives.
Published three times a year, The Trinity Forum Readings are small booklets of between 20 and 50 pages featuring short biographies, essays, and classic stories. An original foreword, often written by a Senior Fellow, gives modern issues a historical context. Biographical pieces include George Washington, William Wilberforce, and Abraham Lincoln. Stories have included great works by Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, and Victor Hugo.
The Readings make thought-provoking gifts and are often used by groups for deeper discussion (such as the focus of a dinner party). Discussion guides are available for several selections (noted below, with an asterisk). If you need a discussion guide for another selection, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
We have published two Readings collections with Baker Books: Character Counts and Unriddling Our Times
We also offer elegant slipcases for purchase. They hold between twelve and fourteen Readings booklets.
See the list below for details on individual titles. These titles are available exclusively through our online store.
Currently available (in print, audio, or e-text)
| Title | Author | Foreword |
|---|---|---|
| A Practical View of Real Christianity * | William Wilberforce | Chuck Stetson |
| A Spiritual Pilgrimage * | Malcolm Muggeridge | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| A Time to Stand: Letters of Courage, Hope, and Faith * | Helmuth James von Moltke | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| A World Split Apart * | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | David Aikman |
| Abraham Lincoln: The Spiritual Growth of a Public Man * | D. Elton Trueblood | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| Amazing Grace: The Great Sea Change in the Life of John Newton * | John Pollock | Os Guinness |
| Confessions of a Wandering Soul | Alonzo L. McDonald | |
| Cry, The Beloved Country | Alan Paton | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| Ex Tenebris * | Russell Kirk | Vigen Guroian |
| Hannah and Nathan * | Wendell Berry | Gregory Wolfe |
| How Much Land Does a Man Need? * | Leo Tolstoy | Os Guinness |
| Jesus: A Layman’s Primer | Alonzo L. McDonald | Steve Haas |
| Joy Cometh in the Morning * | P. G. Wodehouse | Joseph Bottum |
| Leaf by Niggle * | J. R. R. Tolkien | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| Lessons from History | Will and Ariel Durant | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| Man’s Search for Meaning * | Viktor E. Frankl | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| On Being Human * | Woodrow Wilson | David Aikman |
| On Friendship * | Marcus Tullius Cicero | J. Douglas Holladay |
| One Word of Truth: A Portrait of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | David Aikman | Os Guinness and Richard Ohman |
| Painting as a Pastime | Winston S. Churchill | Os Guinness |
| Politics, Morality, and Civility * | Václav Havel | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| Poor Man’s Earl: An introduction to Lord Shaftesbury, the great reformer | John Pollock | Os Guinness |
| Reflections on the Millennium | Alonzo L. McDonald | |
| Revelation | Flannery O'Connor | Louise S. Cowan |
| Shantung Compound * | Langdon Gilkey | Os Guinness |
| Surprised by Goodness * | Phillip Hallie | Os Guinness |
| Telling Truth to Kings | Reinhold Schneider | Os Guinness |
| The Celestial Rail-Road * | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Os Guinness |
| The Gospel of Wealth * | Andrew Carnegie | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| The Grand Inquisitor | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| The Lost Tools of Learning * | Dorothy L. Sayers | Dan Russ |
| The Machine Stops * | E. M. Forster | Dan Russ |
| The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg | Mark Twain | J. McDonald Williams |
| The Oak and the Calf * | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| The Oracle of the Dog * | G. K. Chesterton | P. Douglas Wilson |
| The Purchase of a Soul: A Tale of Transformation from Les Misérables * | Victor Hugo | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| The Strangest Story in the World * | G. K. Chesterton | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| The Sunflower | Simon Wiesenthal | Os Guinness |
| The Theory of Moral Sentiments * | Adam Smith | C. William Pollard |
| The Wager: and Other Selections from the Pensées * | Blaise Pascal and Peter Kreeft | Os Guinness |
| The White Mare * | Michael McLaverty | Miguel Mesquita da Cunha |
| The World of Epictetus * | James Stockdale | Os Guinness |
| To Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington & Religious Liberty * | Paul F. Boller, Jr. | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| Two Old Men * | Leo Tolstoy | Alonzo L. McDonald |
| Who Stands Fast? * | Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Eric Metaxas |
| William Wilberforce: A Man Who Changed His Times * | John Pollock | J. Douglas Holladay |
| Wrestling with God * | Simone Weil | Alonzo L. McDonald |
Out of Print
| Title | Author | Foreword |
|---|---|---|
| The Celestial Rail-Road | Nathaniel Hawthorne | John Seel |
| The Lottery & The Lottery Revisited | Shirley Jackson and Kay Haugaard | Os Guinness |
| Pericles’ Funeral Oration | Thucydides | Henry J. Smith |
| The Revenge of Failure: The Culture of Envy and Rage |
Henry Fairlie, Mary Gordon, Alexander Theroux | Os Guinness |
| Shooting an Elephant | George Orwell | Jim Slattery |
| You Are the Man [note] | Peter L. Berger | Os Guinness |
