Navigating 2024 Faithfully: Resources on Faith and Public Life

Conversation Videos and Podcasts 

• “Christianity, Pluralism, and Public Life” with Amy Black, Michael Wear, Bishop Claude Alexander, and Rev. Canon Peg Chamberlin 
• “Curbing the Culture Wars” with Yuval Levin and Brandon Vaidyanathan  
• “Beyond Ideology” with Peter Kreeft and Eugene Rivers | podcast available here 
• “Christian Pluralism: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference” with John Inazu, Michael Wear, and Trilia Newbill
• “Confident Pluralism in a Turbulent Age” with John Inazu and Eboo Patel
• “Public Faith in Polarized Times” with Walter Kim, Mark Labberton, and Claude Alexander | podcast available here
• “Speaking Peace and Seeking Reconciliation in a Fractured Culture” with David Bailey and Marilyn McEntyre | podcast available here

Trinity Forum Report 

• Christianity, Pluralism, and Public Life in the United States: Insights from Christian Leaders: a report authored by Trinity Forum Senior Fellow Michael Wear and Wheaton College professor Amy Black, exploring the consequences current cultural trends through the perspective of Christian church and ministry leaders. It reveals a broad consensus around the value of pluralism in America, and the opportunities it brings for Christians to live out their faith and contribute to the common good and formation of civic character.

Resources From Others  

• One America Movement partners with faith communities across religious, political, and racial divides to confront toxic polarization.

Conversation Videos and Podcasts 

• “How to be a Patriotic Christian” with Paul Miller and Richard Mouw  
• “The Challenge of Christian Nationalism” with Mark Noll and Vincent Bacote | podcast available here 
• “The State of Religious Freedom” with Stanley Carlson-Thies and Kristina Arriaga
• “The Global Public Square: Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity” with Os Guinness 
• “Forgotten Keys to American Freedom” with Os Guinness and Joe Loconte

Trinity Forum Readings 

• The City of God by Saint Augustine
• To Bigotry No Sanction by George Washington
• The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
• The Great Experiment: A Trinity Forum curriculum on religious freedom in the U.S., with a series of readings that explore the issue, looking at the experiences of the first immigrants (winning freedom), the historical and intellectual roots of the Constitution (ordering freedom), the results of the experiment, and the challenges for the current generation (sustaining freedom).

Conversation Videos and Podcasts 

• “The Fall, the Founding, and the Future of American Democracy” with Tracy McKenzie  
• “Scripture and the Public Square: the Use and Misuse of the Bible in American History” with Kaitlynn Schiess
• “Lincoln’s Sermon on the Mount: The Second Inaugural Address” with Ron White 
• “Last Call for Liberty” with Os Guinness 
• “Lincoln in Private: Leadership Behind Closed Doors” with Ron White | podcast available here
• “Leadership in the Crucible: Lessons from Wilberforce and Jefferson’s Quest for Abolition” with Ray Blunt
• “The Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Chamberlain” with Ron White 
• “Love, Justice, and Suffering: The Legacy of MLK” with Cheryl Sanders, David Bailey, and Bill Haley
• “Leadership in Tumultuous TImes” with Ron White

Trinity Forum Readings 

• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Abraham Lincoln: The Spiritual Growth of a Public Man by Elton Trueblood
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassby Frederick Douglass
• Letter from Birmingham Jail by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Conversation Videos and Podcasts 

• “Christianity and the Case for Democracy” with Luke Bretherton, Deondra Rose, and Anne Snyder
• “Preserving Democracy Across Deep Division” with Robby George and Cornel West
• “The Politics of Resentment” with Francis Fukuyama and Ryan Streeter
• “Healing a Divided Culture” with Arthur Brooks | podcast available here
• “Has Liberalism Failed?” with David Brooks and Patrick Deneen
• “Hope Beyond Political Tribalism” with James Mumford

Trinity Forum Readings 

• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Resources From Others  

• J29 Coalition provides resources for pastors, ministry leaders, theologians, and congregations.

Conversation Videos and Podcasts 

• “An Altar Call: Renewal and the American Church” with Russell Moore 
• “Faithful Presence: the Promise and Peril of Faith in the Public Square” with Bill Haslam
• “Division, Decadence, and Renewal” with Ross Douthat | podcast available here  
• “Rebuilding our Common Life” with Yuval Levin | podcast available here
• “Civility in the Public Square” with Michael Wear and Allison Melangton 
• “Reforming Public Theology” with James K.A. Smith and Michael Wear

Trinity Forum Readings 

• Politics, Morality, and Civility by Vaclav Havel  
• Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Resources From Others  

• The After Party is a video course on faithful citizenship designed for pastors and congregations.
• Arrabon offers resources for spiritual formation to equip the American Church to actively and creatively pursue racial healing in their communities by offering a discipleship process that results in a new action.

Conversation Videos and Podcasts 

• “Towards a Better Christian Politics” with David French, Russell Moore, and Curtis Chang
• “Hope and Healing for a Hurting Culture” with Jonathan Haidt and Peter Wehner | podcast available here 
• “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory” with Tim Alberta
• “Engaging Politics with Love and Truth” with Justin Giboney
• “Civility and Courage Amidst Difference and Division” with Lecrae and Michael Wear
• “Love Your Enemies” with Arthur Brooks and Justin Giboney

Trinity Forum Readings 

• William Wilberforce: A Man Who Changed His Times by John Pollock 
• Who Stands Fast? by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Resources From Others  

• The AND Campaign offers resources on “Civic Revival: How to be Christian During the Election.” 
• The Center for Public Justice has produced a video on “How to Be a Christian in an Election Year (and Not Hate Everyone).”

Conversation Videos and Podcasts 

• “Justice, Mercy, and Overcoming Racial Division” with Claude Alexander and Mac Pier | podcast available here 
• “How to Know a Person” with David Brooks | podcast available here 
• “Redeeming a Culture of Contempt” with Arthur Brooks | podcast available here  
• “Doing Justice” with Gary Haugen 
• “Hospitality to Strangers: Caring for Immigrants and Refugees” with M. Daniel Carroll Rodas
• “Love Thy Neighbor in a Globalized World” with Michael Gerson and Stephen Bauman
• “Redeeming Power” with Diane Langberg | podcast available here 

Trinity Forum Readings 

• The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness by Reinhold Niebuhr
• Letter from Birmingham Jail by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Resources From Others  

• The Dignity Index from UNITE is an eight-point scale that scores speech along a continuum from contempt to dignity in as unbiased a manner as possible.

Conversation Videos and Podcasts 

• “All the Lonely People: Isolation, Connection, and the Common Good” with Ryan Streeter and Francie Broghammer | podcast available here
• “Alienated America” with Tim Carney and Anne Snyder
• “The Lonely American: Rootedness and Reconciliation in a Riven Land” with Sen. Ben Sasse and Russell Moore | podcast available here
• “Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country” with Sen. Tim Scott and Rep. Trey Gowdy
• “Lonely America” with Sen. Ben Sasse

Trinity Forum Readings 

• The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt 
• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela  

Resources From Others  

• More in Common researches the psychological drivers of polarization and the role of ‘upstream’ values and belief, and has identified an ‘Exhausted Majority’ of Americans that are fatigued by the polarized state of our society and eager for change.

Conversation Videos and Podcasts 

• “Faith, Fear, and Conspiracy” with David French
• “Trust, Truth, and the Knowledge Crisis” with Bonnie Kristian | podcast available here
• “Science, Faith, Trust and Truth” with Francis Collins 
• “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies” with Marilyn McEntyre | podcast available here
• “Can Our Culture Be Remade?” with David Bailey and Andy Crouch 
• “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory” with Tim Alberta

Trinity Forum Readings 

• Who Stands Fast? by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Resources From Others  

• American Values Coalition provides resources, skills, and community to counter extremism and misinformation in our families and neighborhoods.