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Scripture Reflection March 27, 2025

God’s Welcoming Embrace

What if the Parable of the Prodigal Son is actually about two brothers, the reckless and the rule-follower, each lost in his own way? We, too, lose our way searching for fulfillment in places we’ll never find it, writes the Rev. Yein Kim, “but God has already found us.”
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Scripture Reflection March 21, 2025

Acknowledging Our Limits

In times of desperation, we often turn to self-preservation rather than surrender to God’s protection. “But just because we fail to recognize our need,” writes Patrick Haley, “doesn’t mean we need God any less.” Lent helps us see we can’t do it all on our own.
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Faith Education March 17, 2025

A New Way to Think About Fasting During Lent

While fasting is oftentimes associated with food, today we might interpret the term more expansively: pausing or stopping certain habits to focus on what’s essential, what’s true, and what’s holy.
Neighborhood Council 2025
Grants and Partners March 14, 2025

Introducing Our 2025 Neighborhood Council

Meet the advisory team of nonprofit organizers, educators, policymakers, and residents helping Trinity understand the needs of our neighbors in Lower Manhattan.

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Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationNovember 9, 2023

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: The Active Practice of Hope

“[This Sunday’s] parable reminds us we are not to be overwhelmed by bad news but to stay in communion with God,” writes Summerlee Staten, Executive Director, Faith Formation and Education, “to keep the lamplight of our faith burning in trust and in hope.”
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Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationNovember 2, 2023

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: How to Reorganize the World

Jesus’s teaching in his Sermon on the Mount gives us a “new vision of how the world should be organized,” upending the status quo “by favoring the poor, the merciful, the mourning, and those rejected for doing the right thing,” writes Dr. Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, Associate Director, Spiritual Practices, Retreats, & Pilgrimage. “How shocking that the way to blessedness is through inadequacy and vulnerability.”
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FeaturedStephanie ChrispinOctober 27, 2023

It's Time to Close Rikers Island

A summary of an event on October 15, 2023 organized by members of Trinity Church Wall Street's Prison Ministry to discuss the closing of Rikers Island Jail and how to advocate for that closing.
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Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationOctober 26, 2023

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: The Choice to Love

Looking over the past few weeks’ Gospel readings, Kathryn Carroll, Program Manager, Children and Family Formation, suggests “if we remove what sounds to our ears as treachery or snark, the conversation becomes deeply philosophical and filled with longing,” leading us to ponder the divinity of Jesus, humanity, and ourselves.
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Grants and PartnersStephanie ChrispinOctober 24, 2023

Housing Tech: Opportunities for Innovation & Advocacy

On October 19, 2023, Trinity hosted a half-day symposium for advocates, organizers, and technologists to discuss and share innovations, strategies, and outcomes at the intersection of housing justice and technology.
Who Keeps the Keeper program participants sit in a circle in group discussion at the Trinity Retreat Center.
FeaturedCheavanese DiedrickOctober 23, 2023

Self-Care as Social Justice

Trinity partnered with its grantee The BREATHE Collective to launch Who Keeps the Keeper (WKTK), a nine-month program designed to help combat burnout and exhaustion and promote self-care and healing for our Keepers, those working tirelessly on the front lines of our movement for equity, justice, and safety.

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Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationOctober 19, 2023

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: All Belongs to God

God made the world and created us in God’s image. We, in turn, have created political structures and currency — which can be used for good or not. But Jesus tells us we must always put God first, in every decision we make, in how we use our resources and the resources of the earth.