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 Hinckley Center at Brigham Young University.
BYU Professor Truman G. Madsen was a renowned philosopher, teacher, and biographer and is regarded as one of the great thinkers within the Latter-day Saint tradition. One of his goals as a founding senior fellow of Wheatley Institute was to bring academic experts and thought leaders “to the fire” at Brigham Young University. In honor of this goal, the Madsen Lecture brings leading scholars of faith from across the spectrum of religious traditions to BYU and provides them an opportunity 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.