{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Trinity Forum Conversations","title":"Reason and Belief with Ross Douthat","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3518,"description":"In this conversation, author Ross Douthat draws from the tradition to tackle a foundational question: Why believe?\nAmid evidence that America’s long trend of secularization has leveled off, a perception of the limits of a strictly materialist worldview, and growing dissatisfaction with “do it yourself” approaches to spirituality, what does traditional faith uniquely offer those seeking truth in our time?\n\nNew York Times columnist and author Ross Douthat joins us for this conversation, making the case for Christianity and rejecting atheism, all through the lens of reason:\n “I think secularization as a deep and profound phenomenon is not real, as you can tell. I think the world remains shot through with miracle and mystery and enchantment.” – Ross Douthat \nWe hope this conversation provides a look at faith from a fresh angle, and encourages you in practicing traditional faith as an answer to the search for truth in our time.\n\nThis podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in February 2025. Watch the recording here.\n\nAuthors and books mentioned in the conversation:\nRoss Douthat for The New York Times\nMatter of Opinion Podcast\nThe Deep Places: A memoir of Illness and Discovery\nThe Decadent Society to Change the Church\nTo Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism\nBad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics\nBelieve: Why Everyone Should Be Religious\nBethel McGrew, on left vs. right brain of Christianity\n\nRelated Trinity Forum Readings:\nThe Wager; Blaise Pascal\nThe Strangest Story in the World; G.K. Chesterton\nA Practical View of Real Christianity; William Wilberforce\nGod’s Grandeur: Gerard Manley Hopkins selection of poems; Gerard Manley Hopkins\nRelated Conversations:\nA World Transformed with Tom Holland\nThe Strangest Story in the World: G.K. Chesterton and the Incarnation with Dale Ahlquist\nTruth and Trust with Francis Collins\nFaith in an Empirical World with Ard Louis and Tremper Longman","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LC6b2lFM_r_3xEJCzvD8r7UblHhgtgss5nBJ4X1mqD4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3OTk3LzE2MTM1/MzUwNjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}