Trinity Forum Conversations

In a culture shaped by distraction, anxiety, and constant noise, how do we focus on what matters most?
In this special episode, we're sharing a conversation from a recent Trinity Forum event featuring Ben Sasse—former U.S. Senator, university president, husband, and father. Following a terminal cancer diagnosis, Ben has embraced a new vocation: helping us think more clearly about the questions that matter most, and the things that endure.
In this conversation with Cherie Harder, our Trinity Forum president who’s known him since their undergrad days at Harvard, Ben joins a room full of family, friends, and colleagues to reflect on mortality, friendship, family, faith, and the kind of attention required for a flourishing life.
What follows is a lightly edited version of that conversation. If you'd like to watch the full video of the interview, you can find a link to the YouTube livestream here.
Recommended Trinity Forum Readings
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (with an introduction by Ben Sasse)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 
The Federalist Papers
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Here are Cherie and Ben from the live recording at National Community Church in Washington, DC:

In March, we welcomed Malcolm Guite for an in-person event to celebrate his new book, Galahad and the Grail, which is the first in his Merlin’s Isle trilogy published through Rabbit Room Press. 

While he was with us, Malcolm sat for this podcast interview in which he described his vision in creating this epic ballad, along with offering a deep exploration of what brought him to poetry in the first place. 

Since the book’s release, Galahad and the Grail has topped bestselling charts and received numerous accolades, demonstrating that its ancient stories find renewal in our modern era. 

You can watch the video of the full conversation on our Youtube Channel here

Recommended Trinity Forum Readings: 
God’s Grandeur: The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot with an introduction by Makoto Fujimura
The Pardoner’s Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer

We live in an unforgiving age. Even as we know that Jesus commanded forgiveness, extending it can seem impossible, impractical, self-harming, even unjust. 

In these times of outrage and fear, what can help us become forgiving people?

Author Amy Orr-Ewing joined us for a recent online conversation, where we explored these questions for a live audience:
"The church needs to recapture the vision of forgiveness as an actuality. This is something real rooted in the sacrifice of Jesus at the cross. And it's that that has actually been the animating force of the Christian faith throughout history."This episode is drawn from an Online Conversation in 2026. You can view the transcript and other resources here.
Recommended Trinity Forum Readings: 
Confessions; Augustine
Wrestling With God; Simone Weil
Purchase of a Soul; Victor Hugo
Revelations of Divine Love; Julian of Norwich

We are a culture well acquainted with anxiety. Recent years have shown it rising dramatically, particularly among Generation Z and Millennials, but affecting all of us. In the Sermon on the Mount, however, Jesus urges us not to be anxious. We wonder: is that actually possible today?

Author Alan Fadling joined us for a recent online conversation, where we explored these questions for a live audience:
"Maybe Peace, and its friends like Hope and Joy, maybe that's a better engine, maybe that's a better source of energy and motivation than my anxiety ever has been. And if my anxiety is fuel, then it's fuel that burns dirty."This episode is from a conversation from February 2026. You can view the transcript and other resources here.
Recommended Trinity Forum Readings: 
Confessions; Augustine
Brave New World; Aldous Huxley
The Long Loneliness; Dorothy Day
Wrestling With God; Simone Weil

In a culture shaped by speed, outrage, and constant distraction, many find it difficult to cultivate a resilient Christian faith. Is slowing down a key to renewing our love of God and neighbor, and sustaining a more durable, authentic faith in a restless age? And how, in practical terms, can we tune out the noise and hear the “still, small voice”?

Drawing on the themes of his book Slow Theology, its co-author, theologian Nijay Gupta, joined us for an online conversation in 2026, where we explored these questions for a live audience: 
"There's a journey that we have to take of striving after God, not because God is a cosmic killjoy, but because we have growth that needs to take place. And that happens slowly."This episode is from a conversation from March 2026. You can view the transcript and other resources here.
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Related Trinity Forum Readings:
Confessions; Augustine
Wrestling With God; Simone Weil
Man's Search for Meaning; Viktor Frankl
Who Stands Fast? Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Why God Became Man; Anselm of Canterbury