Reviving Intellectual Hospitality: A Webinar with Cherie Harder

We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring Trinity Forum President Cherie Harder.
Cherie gives a short presentation on the subject of intellectual hospitality, followed by an interview from our moderator, C.S. Lewis Foundation President, Steven Elmore, and a Q&A session with questions from our audience.
About Cherie Harder: Cherie Harder serves as President of the Trinity Forum. Prior to joining the Trinity Forum in 2008, Ms. Harder served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Policy and Projects for First Lady Laura Bush.Earlier in her career she served as Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, advising the Leader on domestic social issues and serving as liaison and outreach director to outside groups. From 2001 to 2005, she was Senior Counselor to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), where she helped the Chairman design and launch the We the People initiative to enhance the teaching, study, and understanding of American history. Prior to that Ms. Harder was the Policy Director for Senator Sam Brownback and also served as Deputy Policy Director at Empower America. She is also a Senior Fellow at Cardus, an Editorial Board member of Comment magazine, a past board member of Gordon College and the C.S. Lewis Institute, a current board member of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution and Faith and Law, and an advisory board member of the National Museum of American Religion.

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Listening/ watching from Muswell Hill!!!

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I'm listening in from Belfast, Northern Ireland, just up the road from the house where C.S Lewis was born.

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I am torn. Having won an award for my SWING STATE film series in Wisconsin, I have seen things get worse re polarization, despite all attempts at dialogue. As the Director, I simply let both Blue and Red speak openly across the state, but no one from either side would interview together. 4 brave souls changed their minds toward the end of filming, and that segment was truly touching. This was a secular setting, and what you have predominantly focused on here is a renewal of hospitality between Christians with different mindsets ( something that should, theoretically, be attainable). Apart from my journalistic “neutrality” in these films, I am a devout follower of Christ, who has seen the Radical Left decimate our society in a mere 20-30 years, whether in terms of allowing the latest of late-term abortions, the earliest of early transgender surgeries, the silencing or imprisonment of our church leaders, and, or the transformation of colleges into reprogramming centers (rather than places of enlightenment). One commentator asked why it’s always the Christians and Conservatives that keep compromising in our culture’s destructive dialectic, which only leads toward more debauchery with every single synthesis. That said, I agree with Martin Luther King’s statement that “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” I also like your notion of trying to view fellow human beings as “neighbors,” rather than enemies, and focusing on the 2 main things in life: loving God and loving those He made in His image. We have several tools in our toolbox, but in the end, (you are right) it is love that provides our best chance at winning the world for Christ.