A critical part of the Fellows' Academy experience is applying what they've learned in the community and classroom to a specific issue that each Fellow is passionate about: gender issues in the public square, architecture, how our society responds to suffering, student debt, entrepreneurship, fatherlessness, music and community. In this way we consistently ask the practical "So what?" question and also create a dynamic multi-disciplinary learning environment in which each Fellow brings their...
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Class of 2013, Fellowship Thesis
A short insight into the overlapping dialogue and network around the Academy community. On March 3, Andrew Sullivan reposted a short clip from Fellow Sarah Ngu's blog post on his blog The Dish. In "Infecting the Good" Sullivan highlights Sarah's comments on a conversation the Academy Fellows had with geneticist Jimmy Lin about how cancer is "hijacking the processes that give life." That lunch with Jimmy Lin, himself a former Academy speaker and mentor, was built around a joint event on science...
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Science
All photos taken by Fellow Skyler Fike: www.skylerfike.com Click for the full photo gallery.
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400 miles of road sped by on my first drive to Trinity Forum Academy in April while I listened to a series of talks on prayer in the monastic tradition. As I drove, I wondered what this little community on the Eastern shore of Maryland would be like. During my visit, the similarities between the Rule of St. Benedict, described by Graham Tomlin on the talk I had just listened to, and the life of the fellows struck me. Morning and evening prayer bookended days spent in study and work, paralleling...
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