The Trinity Forum Update

This short update includes our wishes for a Merry Christmas, a link to a new podcast, and two other updates from the Trinity Forum Academy. 

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Max McLean Conversation Audio

Last week we held a delightful evening Conversation with actor Max McLean about transcendence in the performing arts and the challenges of interpreting C. S. Lewis’s infamous character, the devil Screwtape.

McLean, currently starring in The Screwtape Letters at the Lansburgh Theater in Washington, opened the evening with a performance of Lewis’s “Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” and was then interviewed by Trinity Forum President Cherie Harder and the other participants. We are pleased to make available to you an MP3 recording of the evening. You can download it here (29 MB, 1:04). We are sure you will enjoy it as much as we did.

(Max and Cherie also recorded a separate podcast which will be released later for members of the Trinity Forum Society. If you have not yet joined the Society, you can do so here.) Additional photos from the evening are available on our Facebook page.

Merry Christmas!

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1.14, ESV

Warm Christmas greetings from the staff of the Trinity Forum— Cherie Harder, Beth Chapman, Peter Edman, Lauren Gasque, Drew Cleveland, and Sabrina Moran.

Academy Integrity Weekend 2010
with Andy Crouch and Michael Lindsay

Join the Trinity Forum Academy on January 29–31, 2010 for Responsible to Risk, a unique weekend of intimate discussion at Osprey Point Retreat & Conference Center about the responsibility Christians have to use their cultural and social influence to creatively serve others. Keynote speakers are Andy Crouch, author of Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling and Dr. D. Michael Lindsay, Author of Faith in the Halls of Power and Professor of Sociology at Rice University. Trinity Forum Senior Fellow Dr. Bill Edgar will moderate. Registration is limited to forty attendees. A limited number of scholarships are available to young leaders interested in applying for a Fellowship in the Trinity Forum Academy Class of 2011. See the conference web page or contact Jake Thomsen at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information.

Trinity Forum Academy:
Accepting Fellowship Applications

The Trinity Forum Academy, a nine-month national fellowship program based near Washington, D.C., is now accepting applicants for the Class of 2011. The Academy will invite twelve Fellows to take part in a rigorous program of thoughtful lecture and discussion, spiritual formation, intentional community, and servant-leadership, all designed to help them explore their callings in an intentional manner. Each Fellow pursues a research interest within their field alongside an experienced mentor. Members of the Academy Senior Faculty are Dr. Bill Edgar, Dr. Os Guinness and Dr. Joseph “Skip” Ryan. Past Guest Faculty and Speakers include Kelly Monroe Kullberg, Gregory Wolfe, Makoto Fujimura, and Francis Collins.

Applicants two to four years out of college are considered based upon demonstrated Christian commitment, academic excellence, servant-leadership potential, desire to contribute to an intentional community, and passion to impact society. Next application deadline: January 29. For more information contact Jake Thomsen at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Join the Trinity Forum Society

There’s still time this year to become a part of the Trinity Forum Society, a community dedicated to advancing our mission of personal and cultural renewal—and receive the very best the Trinity Forum has to offer in the form of thoughtful Readings, insightful articles, exclusive invitations, and exciting events. Your support and involvement is essential to the continuance of our work. To read about the Trinity Forum Society, please visit our web site at www.ttf.org/society. Join Today!

And don’t forget that in 2010 only Society members will receive our thoughtful Trinity Forum Readings automatically.

Year-End Giving

Whether or not you are a part of the Trinity Forum Society, as you contemplate where to make your year-end gifts, we ask that you include the Trinity Forum among the organizations you support.

It is your financial support that makes it possible for us to send out thought-provoking articles, podcasts, and other quality publications and programs. Help us continue this good work in 2010 by making a tax-deductible contribution online here!