Stories & News

The Osborne Association, a Trinity Church grantee, just opened The Fulton Community Reentry Center in the South Bronx, which will serve as a launching pad for men over the age of 50 who are returning home after long-term incarceration.

We’re proud to announce our newest offering, Faith Leadership Campus, which allows us to support and expand our community of faith leaders. This new online platform offers free courses based on the curriculum developed for the TLF program.

Trinity Church is proud to announce the promotion of Tasha Tucker to managing director for the Racial Justice initiative. Tasha will continue to deepen Trinity's engagement in community-led safety and education initiatives.

In the extraordinary story of Pentecost, and still today, the language of the Holy Spirit “transcends the boundaries and limits of culture, country, heart, and mind.” The Spirit breathes within us a holy imagination that “envisions a reality beyond the present,” writes Trinity’s Faith Formation team, “a world created anew through patient, joyful, and loving collaboration with God and one another.

Trinity Church is returning to AIDS Walk New York on May 19 with a team full of parishioners and staff eager to put their faith into action by caring for their neighbors – one step at a time.

Trinity's Neighborhood Support team is thrilled to announce the 2024 class of its Neighborhood Council, an advisory group comprised of 21 nonprofit leaders, community organizers, policymakers, residents, and other stakeholders across Lower Manhattan. Together with the Council, the Neighborhood Support team continues to center community voices in its programmatic endeavors. 

As Christians, we’re not meant to separate ourselves from “worldly” issues to stay safe and unscathed; we’re called to do the opposite. “We are called to participate fully in our communal life,” writes Trinity’s Faith Formation team, “in a way that allows God’s love to flow through us — for the benefit of all.”

In his new book, “The Age of Grievance,” best-selling author and New York Times columnist Frank Bruni examines how grievance has come to shape and define American life. On May 30, Bruni will join Trinity Church's rector, the Rev. Phillip Jackson, for a compelling discussion on how to heal the divisions in our society.

True friendship is not transactional, but it does come with obligations. Any mutual relationship, in fact, requires everyday relinquishments from both sides. “Just as Jesus makes sacrifices for his followers out of love,” writes Trinity’s Faith Formation team, “so must we be willing to ‘lay down our lives for our friends.’”

It’s often through discomfort God frees us from the things that keep us from spiritual growth. “We can rely on God to shape, form, and renew us each day,” writes Trinity’s Faith Formation team, “as we transform more and more into the people God created us to be.”