How can we cultivate a faith that endures and flourishes?

Author, Anglican priest, and Trinity Forum Senior Fellow Tish Harrison Warren shows us how lasting and beautiful things can take root and grow in our lives. By drawing on themes from her new book, What Grows in Weary Lands: On Christian Resilience, we will explore how habits rooted in the historic church—prayer, liturgy, Sabbath, and community—can anchor us in a stormy age.

This episode is drawn from an Online Conversation in 2026. You can view the transcript and other resources here.

Go deeper into the issues discussed in this episode with these Trinity Forum Readings:

Pilgrim of Tinker Creek; Annie Dillard (Introduction by Tish Harrison Warren)
Confessions; Saint Augustine
Wrestling With God; Simone Weil
Revelations of Divine Love; Julian of Norwich
Revelation; Flannery O'Connor

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