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The latest grants highlight Trinity’s commitment to improving student outcomes, supporting affordable housing, and addressing the continuing migrant crisis in our city.

Beginning in the pews and ending in the streets, Pride Sunday makes a powerful statement: God’s love includes everyone, no exceptions. “It’s a day we remember that each of us — and in particular our LGBTQ+ siblings — is formed with divine precision and purpose,” says Vicar Michael Bird.

Featuring world premieres, a fall series celebrating the inauguration of Trinity’s new pipe organ, the acclaimed “gold standard” rendition of Handel’s Messiah, and more.

What can we do to cultivate hope in a time that can feel hopeless? “The answer is simple — but it’s not easy,” writes the Rev. Phil Jackson. “We must live lives of faithfulness to God ... As God loves us, we must love one another.” 

Trinity shines a light on the volunteers who strengthen our community.

The first church communities discovered a truth that remains pivotal today: God’s expanding love invites everyone in.

Pentecost is known as the birthday of the Christian church, explains the Rev. Jorge Ortiz. Falling 50 days after Easter, it marks the fulfillment of Jesus’s promise to send the Holy Spirit to his followers as a helper and a guide.  

In John’s Gospel, Jesus makes a world-altering request: that his followers might be united with him just as he is united with God the Father. “Jesus speaks of an eternal union — the grand weave of humanity swept up into the mystical life of the Trinity itself,” writes Summerlee Staten. “Beyond time and founded on an overflowing love.”

Recommended by Trinity clergy and staff, the hand-picked books on this Pride reading list — from poetry to science fiction, theology to memoir — will comfort you, inspire you, and dare you to settle into the goodness of all God’s creation. And that includes you.

It takes faith to live in a world that denies protections to the most vulnerable, where the dignity of every human being is not respected. But not just any faith. “It’s a faith,” writes the Rev. Yein Kim, “birthed in the greatest gift Jesus leaves us: God’s peace.”