Trinity Forum Conversations

Our Summer 2025 series, Beside Still Waters, focuses on the places where creativity brings life into a world fatigued by brokenness and division. From jazz to Jane Austen and in between, this season we’ll focus on the ways literature and the arts can refresh and challenge our inner lives—and connect us with the Creator of the good, the true, and the beautiful.

In this episode, our guides are modern hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty. Back in 2019, we hosted a live Evening Conversation in which they explored the ways in which music can speak to our spiritual hunger and shape our sense of beauty, truth, and purpose: 

"Our singing doesn't just affect each one of us. We are a witness to the world around us. When we sing, we are always a witness."

We hope this conversation will resonate with you as you explore the good, the true, and the beautiful in your own corner of creation. 

If it does, please consider joining the Trinity Forum community as a member, at ttf.org. You can find the full video of this conversation there too. And while you’re here, please subscribe to this podcast on your chosen platform. 

Learn more about the Gettys.
 
Watch our Evening Conversation.
 
Authors, artists, and books mentioned in the conversation:
Peter Kreeft
The Republic, by Plato
Damon of Athens
Sing: How Worship Transforms your Life, Family, and Church, by Keith and Kristyn Getty
Unwearied Praises: Exploring Christian Faith Through Classic Hymns, by Dr. Jeff Greenman
The Pedagogy of Praise, by Dr. Jeff Greenman
John Lennox
Lucy Shaw
Eugene Peters
J.I. Packer
Martin Luther
Leonard Bernstein
Amy Carmichael
Cecil Frances Alexander
Os Guinness
Charles Spurgeon
Lloyd Jones
D.L. Moody
 
Related Trinity Forum Readings:
Handel’s Messiah
 
Related Conversations:
Waiting on the Word with Malcolm Guite
Poetry & Beauty in Solitude with Dana Gioia

What is Trinity Forum Conversations?

Trinity Forum Conversations is a podcast exploring the big questions in life by looking to the best of the Christian intellectual tradition and elevating the voices, both ancient and modern, who grapple with these questions and direct our hearts to the Author of the answers. We invite you to join us in one of the great joys of life: a conversation among friends on the things that matter most.