A Series that Enlightened, Entertained, and Inspired
Hundreds of community members and Trinity students were enlightened, entertained, and inspired by this year’s WorldView series of events in October.
Voting as part of a vibrant democracy: Photogallery
Cook County Clerk David Orr presented an energetic and informative address on voting and democracy on October 6. Orr tackled the topics of campaigning and the challenges voters face when trying to make informed decisions about candidates. He also discussed ideas for change and those being implemented today.
Orr especially emphasized the importance of voting. “I hope you can look at your neighbor and say two powerful words, ‘I voted.’”
Orr has been the chief election authority for suburban Cook County, one of the U.S.’s largest election jurisdictions, since December 1990. As County Clerk, he has earned a reputation for responsible budgeting and government efficiency by modernizing elections and returning millions of dollars to Cook County’s coffers every year.
An Evening of Music: Photogallery
Incredible music filled the Ozinga Chapel Auditorium on Monday, October 13, as organist Thomas Gouwens performed pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers. Other popular pieces for the organ included Fanfare by Welsh composer William Matthias, whose body of work includes the anthem for Prince Charles wedding to Lady Diana, and Toccata for Symphony V by Charles Marie Widor, which has been played for many festival church services.
Gouwens is the associate organist at Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. He has served as a faculty member at various colleges, a university organist, and dean of the Chicago Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Growing up in apartheid South Africa: Photogallery
The third child of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nomalizo Leah Tutu, Nontombi Naomi Tutu, race and gender justice activist, spoke to a packed Grand Lobby on October 20.
With humor and passion, she shared personal stories about the challenges of growing up black and female in apartheid South Africa, experiences that have been the foundation of her life as an activist for human rights.
Tutu said at times of great oppression, when she may have doubted, “Christians stepped in.” Whether a group of New York school children writing letters to her imprisoned father or a Dutch family becoming part of her own family to lend support, people lived out what Tutu said Jesus also lived out, being responsible for one another.
A Story that Inspires: Photogallery
More than 300 people gathered to watch the film, “Return to the Hiding Place,” on October 27. Actress Mimi Sagadin, who played Corrie ten Boom, offered opening comments, expressing the faith and love of God.
The film, based on a true story, follows the heroic acts of Hans, Piet, and their friends—part of Corrie ten Boom’s army of untrained students—as they navigate a deadly labyrinth of challenges to rescue Jewish people from Nazi capture. The film’s climax is the true, breath-taking rescue of an orphanage of Jewish children from Hitler’s assassins.