Interns will work alongside staff on essential projects and will see the results of their work incorporated into the operations of the Trinity Forum. For graduate and post-graduate students, the internship will also include the opportunity to develop and implement a substantive, long-term project that will match their interests with the needs of the organization.

The Trinity Forum’s DC office is located in the center of downtown Washington, DC, at 2011 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, and is easily accessible by Metro and bus. Interns are expected to secure their own housing arrangements. Full-time as well as part-time internships are available.

Dear Friends,

A Trinity Forum event participant recently sent us a note:

“Thanks again for what you guys are doing—it’s truly phenomenal. It’s timely and will ... lead toward generational change in our culture/society.”

We are always thrilled to receive such feedback—but not surprised. There is such a great hunger for opportunities to reflect on and engage with ultimate questions—of meaning, purpose, good and evil, character and leadership, our “why” in the world.

There are surprisingly few spaces for such reflection. Competing obligations, frayed community ties, the distractions of entertainment media, and the incivility of much of public discourse add to the difficulty of finding time to think, converse, and connect on what is truly important.

For the past nineteen years, the Trinity Forum has provided an essential space and resources for discussion and consideration of life’s greatest questions—confident that such inquiry ultimately leads to greater knowledge of the Author of life himself.

It is a vital mission—and one I know you support. That is why I am asking you to help us expand this work in 2010 with a special year-end gift.

Over the past year, with the help of generous supporters, we have:

• Held weekend-long forums for young leaders on vocation and life purpose;
• Hosted a series of Evening Conversations with such fascinating speakers as philosophers Dallas Willard and Roger Scruton, actor Max McLean, and others;
• Welcomed acclaimed artist Makoto Fujimura as a new Senior Fellow;
• Launched a new series of podcasts featuring renowned thought leaders to make the best of Christian thinking more widely available;
• Published new Trinity Forum Readings that consider such key ideas as the tie between economics and moral norms;
• Begun development of an exciting new curriculum on “Science, Faith, and Truth” to enable young leaders to more deeply engage and understand the relationship between scientific and spiritual truth; and
• Introduced the Trinity Forum Facebook page to provide timely resources and readings.

All of these efforts are made possible by friends like you! That is why I hope you will show your support of this work by making a tax-deductible year-end contribution to continue this vital work.

As we look to the New Year, there is much to be excited about. Plans are already underway to unveil new publications on the impact of technology and on understanding the arts. We will publish our first Trinity Forum Reading on poetry. Our city discussion groups continue to grow to provide more people the life-enriching opportunity to consider together the great ideas of civilization and the faith that animates them, and we will continue to provide events and publications that help you and those you love thoughtfully consider how you live and how you lead.

Please join with us in our shared mission by making a year-end online contribution.

(You can also make a gift of stocks or bonds. If you would like to give in this manner, please call Beth Chapman at 202-944-9881. By doing so, you will receive a charitable tax deduction for the fair market value of your contribution.)

We so appreciate your generosity and your willingness to stand with us in this vital effort. May you and yours enjoy a very happy holiday season!

Warm greetings,

Cherie Harder
President

P.S. We hope you have had the chance to join the Trinity Forum Society, which provides new ways for members to connect with each other and with the great ideas of history. If you have not yet joined the Trinity Forum Society, you can do so here.

In addition, the Study Series edition of When No One Sees, our curriculum on character, is now available again, as is the discounted Study Series collection.

You can order these and other titles at our online store.

The Everlasting Man was first released in 1925 and has had an enduring influence—not least as a primary intellectual milestone in the conversion of C. S. Lewis. Our selections include Chesterton’s main arguments that focus on two things that are “altogether strange and unique” in our experience: “The first of these is the creature called man, and the second is the man called Christ.” He follows humanity from the first evidences of the cave-man to the birth of Christ—“the God in the cave” at Bethlehem—and the dawn of a new world. As McDonald reminds us in his Foreword, “this is, as Chesterton readily admits, the strangest story in the world, made stranger still by the history of the church that has followed.”

The booklet is 40 pages and includes a discussion guide. It will be shipping in November 2009. You can order copies now at our online store.

We are also pleased to introduce three small thematic collections of our Trinity Forum Readings booklets—Great Questions, Great Answers, and Great Courage. The new collections are priced at $20 or less and join our other discounted Readings sets—Great Stories, Great Thoughts, Great Lives, and the full collections of in-print Readings. Don’t forget that the larger Great Stories, Great Thoughts, and Great Lives collections also include one of our elegant slipcases.

The Great Questions Collection offers five titles that raise the deep human questions while leaving space for answers to emerge. The Great Answers Collection includes five Readings about Jesus. And the Great Courage Collection focuses on faith that can endure deep trials. You can read more about these collections and our other resources at our online store.