Culture | Panula Chair | Philosophy | Theology
Carl Trueman & Mary Eberstadt Discuss the “The Desecration of Man”
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
6:30 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT
Catholic Information Center
1501 K Street NW
Washington,
DC
20005
United States
Description
Join us as the CIC’s Panula Chair in Christian Culture Mary Eberstadt welcomes and interviews Carl R. Trueman for the launch of his new book, The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity. Mr. Trueman will begin the evening by outlining his book’s concepts followed by an interview with Mrs. Eberstadt.
This program will be offered both in-person and virtually through a YouTube livestream. The Desecration of Man will be available for purchase at the CIC’s bookstore.
4/7 Schedule:
- 6:15 PM: CIC doors open for registrant check-in
- 6:30 PM: Presentation, which will be livestreamed (we will also take some time for audience Q&A)
- 7:30 PM: Booksigning with our speakers and a light happy hour
- 8:30 PM: Evening concludes
About the Book:
As church attendance falls, suicide rates climb, and birth rates plummet, Christian pundits have suggested disenchantment and the loss of tradition are to blame for our spiritual malaise. But what if the problem is both much simpler and much more serious?
In The Desecration of Man, Carl Trueman argues that modern man’s crisis of meaning stems from a rejection of a simple fact—that he was made in the image of God. Unmoored from the basic moral fact that secures human dignity, we violently disrespect our own minds and bodies through abortion, pornography, casual sex, gender transitions, and more—and in this disrespect we blaspheme against God himself, with devastating practical and spiritual consequences.
With gentle pastoral wisdom, deep insight into church history, and an impressive command of philosophical genealogies, The Desecration of Man speaks to those troubled by the spiritual sickness of our time and points toward consecration to a God who is alive and loving as a solution. The Early Church triumphed over Rome because it offered life in place of death. It is time for modern Christians to offer the same kind of vision.
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About the Speakers
Carl R. Trueman is a fellow in EPPC’s Evangelicals in Civic Life Program, where his work focuses on helping civic leaders and policy makers better understand the deep roots of our current cultural malaise. In addition to his scholarship on the intellectual foundations of expressive individualism and the sexual revolution, Trueman is also interested in the origins, rise, and current use of critical theory by progressives. He serves as a professor at Grove City College.
Mary Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center in Washington DC, is Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute, and is an American writer whose contributions to the intellectual landscape traverse several genres.
