Please join us for the 2026 Truman G. Madsen Lecture on Eternal Man, given by Anne Snyder, at 7:00 PM on October 7. The event will be held in the Assembly Hall at the Hinkley Building at Brigham Young University.
Truman G. Madsen was a renowned philosopher, teacher, and biographer and is regarded as one of the greatest LDS thinkers of our time. One of his goals as a founding senior fellow of Wheatley Institute was to bring academic experts and civic leaders “to the fire” at BYU. In honor of this goal, the Madsen Lecture on Eternal Man series feature leading scholars of faith, who are oftentimes not LDS themselves, giving them opportunities to discuss their work on the foundational relationship between faith and reason.
About the Speaker:
Anne Snyder is the editor-in-chief of Comment magazine. She is also the host of The Whole Person Revolution podcast and co-editor of Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year, published in January 2022.
Prior to leading Comment, she directed The Philanthropy Roundtable‘s Character Initiative, a program seeking to help foundations and business leaders strengthen “the middle ring” of morally formative institutions. Her path-breaking guidebook, The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Renewing our Social and Moral Landscape, was published in 2019. From 2014 to 2017 Anne worked for Laity Lodge and the H.E. Butt Foundation in Texas, and before that, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, World Affairs Journal and The New York Times. She is a Senior Fellow of The Trinity Forum and a Fellow at the Urban Reform Institute, a Houston-based think tank that explores how cities can drive opportunity for the bulk of their citizens. She has published widely, including The Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, Bittersweet Monthly and of course Comment, and now serves as a trustee for Nyack College. Anne spent the formative years of her childhood overseas before earning a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College (IL) and a master’s degree from Georgetown University. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.