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Christian Wiman
Faith Education January 17, 2025

A Case Against Despair: Six Questions for Author Christian Wiman

In an exclusive interview, the renowned poet Christian Wiman reflects on how "wonder — at love, at beauty, at the fact that we are alive at all" can sustain us in even the most difficult times. Wiman joins Trinity Talks on February 9.
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Scripture Reflection January 16, 2025

Loving Our Enemies Means Swimming Against the Stream

When we follow Jesus’s countercultural example, resistance to evil looks radically different. “Hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate . . . in the universe,” preached Martin Luther King Jr. So, even when it costs us, we forgive others as God has forgiven us. “Impossible love like this,” writes Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, “has the power to charge a brutal world with holiness.”
Music Press Release 2025 Spring
Press Releases January 13, 2025

Trinity Church Announces 2025 Spring Music Season

Trinity’s spring lineup—featuring world-renowned artists and emerging voices—embodies the church’s focus on peacemaking and celebrates the transformative power of art to inspire change and healing.
A breaking chain transforms into a flying dove
Scripture Reflection January 9, 2025

God’s Judgment Is Not What You Think

Jesus comes to establish a new era of unending justice, in which anything that stands in the way of God’s love will fall away. “For those who hoard wealth, lord their power over the weak, and refuse to follow Jesus’s example,” writes Summerlee Staten, it’s a scary thought. But at its core, it’s a message of lasting liberation — for all of us.

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Mother Kristin Miles
Faith EducationNovember 22, 2024

What Is Advent?

Advent is a time of active waiting as we anticipate the birth of Jesus. As the Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles explains, it's a time to slow down and prepare our hearts for Christmas.
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Faith EducationThe Rev. Yein KimNovember 21, 2024

Jesus’s Kingdom of Truth and Love

“This is our work: to commit ourselves to Jesus . . . the king who is a servant,” writes the Rev. Yein Kim. “Who comes, teaches, heals, reconciles, dies, and rises again, who lives through us and who will return.”
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Faith EducationThe Rev. Matthew WelschNovember 14, 2024

God Is With Us, Always

“Jesus repeatedly demonstrates that God is unafraid to stand with us amid our deepest fears and insecurities,” writes the Rev. Matthew Welsch. “God is not only with us when things are good and peaceful; God is with us when everything feels like it’s falling apart.”
Hot Bread Kitchen is creating economic opportunities through language and job skills training. (Photo: Jill Wachter)
Grants and PartnersSharlene BreakeyNovember 8, 2024

Prepping a Place at the Table

Trinity Church is helping Hot Bread Kitchen prepare asylum seekers for a career in the city’s pro kitchens.  
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Faith EducationKathy Bozzuti-Jones, PhDNovember 7, 2024

How We Imitate Jesus’s Way of Love

“On the path of holiness,” writes Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, “God’s Spirit empowers us to participate in God’s healing work on earth every single day.”
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Faith EducationSummerlee StatenOctober 31, 2024

The Holy Defiance of Fear

“When we love one another despite our differences, and when we seek to make friends of enemies,” writes Summerlee Staten, “we make a powerful statement: We are willing to participate in God’s future.”
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Faith EducationThe Rev. Matt WelschOctober 25, 2024

What It Means to Follow Jesus

“We pattern our lives after Jesus’s teaching and example,” writes the Rev. Matt Welsch, “by putting others first, by caring for those who are outcast, and by positioning ourselves as children of God in need of God’s love and guidance.”
Rev. Patrick Williams on All Saints' Day
History and ArchivesOctober 24, 2024

What Is All Saints’ Day?

The Rev. Patrick Williams explains the origins of this day set aside for remembering loved ones who have died.
Faith in New York's voter education booth
Grants and PartnersOctober 24, 2024

Getting New Yorkers to the Polls

Trinity grantee GoVoteNYC is working with nonprofits to educate and empower voters across the city.

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