What did America's founders believe about human nature? How might a deeper understanding of their perspective shape the way we think about our current and future challenges to democracy?
Join us Friday, August 19th at 1:30 pm ET, as we talk with Dr. Tracy McKenzie, professor of history at Wheaton College and author of the award-winning We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy, to take a close look at the nature of American democracy and what it means for the future. We'll discuss the view of human nature that was shared by America's founding fathers, the implications of its abandonment, and explore the tension of fallen human beings entrusted with self-governance. This conversation of America's history can help us see the present with fresh insight as we consider how Christians and the Church play a role in the public and political life of the country.
Since coming to Wheaton, McKenzie has turned his attention to the ways in which Christians in the United States remember (or misremember) American history. A past president of the Conference on Faith and History, a national organization of Christian historians, he is the author of numerous works including The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us about Loving God and Learning from History, A Little Book for New Historians: How and Why to Study History, and his newest release, the award-winning We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy.
We hope you will join us for this Online Conversation on Friday, August 19th at 1:30 p.m. ET. Registration for this hour-long conversation is free, but required. After you register you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link to join the webinar.
If you have any questions, please contact us at mail@ttf.org or 202.944.9881.
Warmly,
Cherie Harder
President
The Trinity Forum
