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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.
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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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Faith EducationThe Rev. Yein KimOctober 18, 2024

What It Means to Be Truly Great

“Jesus flips the script on greatness,” writes the Rev. Yein Kim. “True glory comes not from being the best, not from the desire to be noticed, not from self-importance and making your mark, but through service.”
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MusicSharlene BreakeyOctober 16, 2024

Giving Voice to the Voiceless

With a powerful New York premiere, composer Gabriel Kahane confronts the experience of being homeless as Trinity’s music ensemble, NOVUS, dives heart first into a new season.
Amanda Ripley
Faith EducationOctober 14, 2024

High Conflict / Healthy Conflict

Bestselling author and trained conflict mediator Amanda Ripley shares insights on how to fight with dignity for the causes we care about most. Ripley joins Trinity Talks on October 27.
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Faith EducationDr. Kathy Bozzuti-JonesOctober 11, 2024

How Do We Get to Eternal Life?

“Full and everlasting life is a pure gift,” writes Dr. Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, “we cannot buy or demand or work for it. We cannot make it happen. Instead we must learn to receive what God gives us freely.”
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Faith EducationSummerlee StatenOctober 4, 2024

All of God’s World Is Connected

God cares about every living thing, including our pets, writes Summerlee Staten: “We are kin to one another — made from the same earthly matter.” Like St. Francis who believed all creatures make up one family, we find joy in our common dependency on God’s grace.
Father Phil Jackson in conversation at a Trinity Talks event in New York City
Parish LifeThe Rev. Phillip A. JacksonOctober 2, 2024

A Letter from Father Phil: Finding Community in a Divided Season

“The patience required for navigating these fraught times isn’t always easy to summon,” says the Rev. Phil Jackson, “but it’s the kind of love God asks us to embody — seeing one another not as enemies, but as friends.”
Pico Iyer is an author, journalist, and travel writer.
Faith EducationSeptember 11, 2024

Author Pico Iyer on Finding Peace in Our Divided World

In an exclusive interview, the renowned writer Pico Iyer reflects on his quest to hold onto hope in even the most difficult times. Iyer opened the 2024-25 season of Trinity Talks on September 22.
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CommunityThe Rev. Phillip A. JacksonSeptember 3, 2024

A Letter from Father Phil

How our downtown community is making a difference for children and families in District 1 schools.
Melissa Music Press Release
MusicSeptember 3, 2024

Trinity Church Announces 2024–2025 Music Season

Trinity Church announces its 2024-2025 season, featuring programming encompassing social, political, personal, and spiritual themes, and music from the medieval era to the modern day.
The Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles
FeaturedJuly 25, 2024

The Rev. Kristin Miles Reflects on 50 Years of Women’s Ordination

Fifty years ago, on July 29, 1974, eleven women were ordained as Episcopal priests at Philadelphia’s Church of the Advocate. The “Philadelphia Eleven” paved the way for The Episcopal Church’s approval of women’s ordination two years later. The Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles, Trinity Church’s director of Parish Life, reflects on what this anniversary means to her.

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