• Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl and Foreword by Al McDonald
• The Wager and other selections from the Pensées by Blaise Pascal with commentary from Peter Kreeft and Foreword by Os Guinness.
• To Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington and Religious Liberty by Paul Boller and foreword by Al McDonald.

Each is newly formatted, set in larger type, and includes a group discussion guide. They are available in early March from our online store.

Before coming to the First Lady’s office in early 2007, Ms. Harder served as Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist from 2005 to 2006, where she advised the Leader on domestic social issues and served as liaison and outreach director to outside groups. From 2001 to 2005, she was the Senior Counselor to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), where she helped the Chairman design and launch the NEH and Bush Administration’s “We the People” initiative to enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history. Prior to that Ms. Harder was the Policy Director for Senator Sam Brownback and also served as Deputy Policy Director at Empower America.

Ms. Harder holds a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University and a post-graduate diploma in literature from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where she was a Rotary Scholar.

Ms. Harder will succeed Executive Director Luder G. Whitlock, Jr., who has led the organization since 2003. The Board has named Dr. Whitlock a Senior Fellow and looks forward to his continued participation in Trinity Forum activities, said Mr. Sikes. Dr. Whitlock’s immediate plans include writing two books and working with Excelsis, an Orlando-based nonprofit.

Mr. Sikes noted that Dr. Whitlock “leaves The Trinity Forum in a healthy condition in every way. We are particularly grateful for his work on organizational stability, expanding the ranks of our Senior Fellows, and beginning our online Provocations journal. He has set the stage for significant growth and we are very excited about our opportunities as we move toward our twentieth anniversary and beyond under the leadership of Cherie Harder.”

He is a scientist renowned for his contributions to finding the genetic basis of disease, including identifying the genes responsible for cystic fibrosis and Huntington’s disease, and for his leadership of the Human Genome Project. Among his books are Principles of Medical Genetics (1998) and The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2006).

Muggeridge (1903–1990) was, at various points in his life, a teacher, journalist, soldier-spy, foreign correspondent, television personality, pilgrim, and public voice for Jesus. McDonald summarizes the story of a full life—often excessive, generally unconventional, with adventures on every continent—and presents Muggeridge to us as a twentieth-century “everyman” following a path as old as Solomon’s in Ecclesiastes.

Muggeridge’s Conversion is an autobiography written largely in the third person and in a style that evokes Augustine’s Confessions. In it, he looks back on his life from the perspective of a late convert to the Christian faith, retelling his journey and some of the lessons learned. Our selections focus on his conversion as well as on his deeply moving and provocative meditations on the prospect of death. This brief Reading offers an opportunity to step back and see one life in full perspective, which may offer us not only questions to consider but a glimpse of a path we might want to explore.

This Reading has a white cover with gold foil lettering and includes a discussion guide and suggestions for further reading. It will be available at the beginning of December 2007.

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Mr. Hartman recently joined the Washington bureau of the BBC. He will produce a new nightly newscast for BBC AMERICA and the BBC World Channel, to premiere this fall. He joined the BBC after nearly twenty-five years at CBS News, most recently as executive producer for the CBS Evening News, and including fourteen years as a producer at 60 Minutes, where he earned two Emmy Awards. He and his family live outside Washington, DC.

Executive Director Luder Whitlock enthusiastically welcomed Mr. Sikes to his new position, observing that his engaging style and productive role as trustee led to a unanimous selection by the Board. He also thanked Mr. Klaassen for his generous and steady leadership, which has resulted in new opportunities and greater influence for The Trinity Forum, adding, “we are grateful that we will still have the benefit of his counsel as we make what appears to be a smooth but stimulating transition. Paul Klaassen has been so instrumental in the accomplishments of recent years that we cannot imagine a Trinity Forum without his continued participation.”

Mr. Sikes has been involved with The Trinity Forum for many years as a Moderator at its executive seminars and forums as well as a mentor and advisor to the Trinity Forum Academy Fellows. He was elected to the board in 2005 and chaired the committee responsible for developing the Implications online journal.

Mr. Sikes, a former assistant attorney general and past chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, now divides his time between board work and business consulting for the Hearst Corporation, where he formed and led Hearst Interactive Media from 1993 through 2001. He is also the founder and past chair of the Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation, which serves at-risk children, and was recognized by the Manhattan Institute in 2004 as one of the nation’s foremost social entrepreneurs. He and his wife Marty live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.