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"Jane Austen teaches me to not be so nostalgic about how things used to be, or what used to be respectable, that I don't see the potential for newer forms and newer ways." Trinity Forum Senior Fellow @KSPrior discusses how Austen's use of novels for moral instruction was…

"It doesn't have to feel good ... what you're after is being free from the bondage of unforgiveness." @BethMooreLPM speaks openly about what it takes to forgive—particularly in situations where forgiveness is a radical act. How can we follow suit? What is the freedom that we gain…

In today’s podcast episode, our focus today is Jane Austen, and our guide is Trinity Forum Senior Fellow, @KSPrior. Jane Austen’s world and concerns seem distant from ours. Yet across the centuries, Karen illuminates the importance of the seemingly mundane, and the path towards…

"What we learn from the Inklings is that almost any amount of criticism...can be born if we honestly believe that the person has our best interest in mind." Author and professor @DianaGlyer discusses the difference between constructive and destructive criticism in our podcast…

Join us today at 1:30 p.m. ET! Trinity Forum Senior Fellow @drmoore (who is not related to @bethmoorelpm) published a glowing review of her book, "All My Knotted-Up Life" in Christianity Today. Beth will join us for a Trinity Forum Online Conversation to discuss the book. There's…

Have you purchased our Summer Trinity Forum Reading? Featuring selections from “Revelations of Divine Love” by Julian of Norwich, an anchoress and mystic, the reading includes an introduction by Trinity Forum Senior Fellow @HootenWilson. During her lifetime, Julian’s world, much…

Dr. William Edgar is one of our distinguished Trinity Forum Senior Fellows. An author, professor and minister, Edgar has written 12 books, the latest of which explores the connection between jazz music and the Christian gospel. Listen here: ttf.org/portfolios/onl…

2 more days! Join us online this Friday, July 18 at 1:30 PM ET as prominent Christian author and speaker @BethMooreLPM helps us work through a challenge we all may face at various times: maintaining resilience — and faithfulness to vocation — in the face of hardship. She will…

Professor and author @DianaGlyer discusses the first time J.R.R. Tolkein shared a poem with C.S. Lewis, asking for his feedback, which sparked the relationship that would turn into the Inklings. Listen to the full conversation about how creativity thrives within small clusters…

Congratulations to Trinity Forum Senior Fellow @HootenWilson! She is the Fletcher Jones Chair of Great Books at @Pepperdine and received a $393K grant from @character_wfu. The funding will help expand Pepperdine’s Great Books Colloquium into a full core curriculum alternative in…

Author and professor @dianaglyer joins us to discuss the lives and work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their beloved community known as the Inklings. In this episode, she focuses on how creativity thrives within small clusters of like-hearted people. We hope you enjoy…

This Friday, @BethMooreLPM will join us for an online conversation. Drawing from the experiences described in her memoir, "All My Knotted-Up Life," Beth will help inspire our own response to hardship and opposition, as well as to encourage resilience and faithfulness to vocation.…

Trinity Forum Senior Fellow @drmoore (who is not related to @bethmoorelpm) published a glowing review of her book, "All My Knotted-Up Life" in Christianity Today. Beth will join us for a Trinity Forum Online Conversation to discuss the book on July 18, 2025 at 1:30 p.m. ET. You…

What is the connection between loving others and creating art? Jazz vocalist and composer Ruth Naomi Floyd joins our podcast to discuss the intersection of music, creativity, and justice, and to help us think deeply about our role in repairing, re-envisioning, and creating new…

Our Summer 2025 podcast series, Beside Still Waters, focuses on the places where creativity brings life into a world fatigued by brokenness and division. From jazz to Jane Austen and in between, this season we’ll focus on the ways literature and the arts can refresh and challenge…

How should we live faithfully within a world created to be good and beautiful, and yet everywhere is marred by ugliness and injustice? Jazz vocalist and composer @ruthnaomifloyd joins our podcast for the first episode of our summer series, "Beside Still Waters," to discuss the…

As we celebrate the Fourth of July, we’re reminded that the challenges of our time—polarization, distrust in institutions, and civic fragmentation—are not new. Even at our nation’s founding, leaders wrestled publicly with the dangers of extremism, factionalism, and the abuse of…

Meet Dr. Lydia Dugdale, one of our distinguished Trinity Forum Senior Fellows. She is a professor of medicine and the director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. She is an internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist, focusing on…