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Pico Iyer is an author, journalist, and travel writer.
Faith Education September 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 will open the 2024-25 season of Trinity Talks on September 22.
Melissa Music Press Release
Press Releases September 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.
family service
Featured September 3, 2024

A Letter from Father Phil

How our downtown community is making a difference for children and families in District 1 schools.
The Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles
Parish Life July 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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A close-up photo of a wood carving of Jesus on the cross
Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationNovember 17, 2022

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Remembering and Redemption

We can’t easily make sense of Jesus’s harsh apocalyptic portrayal today, and an exclusively literal interpretation misses an important message: there comes a time in the spiritual life where one can choose either to despair or to endure.
Afternoon light spotlights a cross on the top of Trinity Church Wall Street in Lower Manhattan
Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationNovember 11, 2022

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Live By Me, Not By Fear

We can’t easily make sense of Jesus’s harsh apocalyptic portrayal today, and an exclusively literal interpretation misses an important message: there comes a time in the spiritual life where one can choose either to despair or to endure.
Black girls and LBGTQ+ youth gather in a meeting to discuss a campaign.
FeaturedNovember 9, 2022

Grantee Spotlight: Girls for Gender Equity

Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) works intergenerationally, through a Black feminist lens, to center the leadership of Black girls and gender-expansive young people of color in reshaping culture and policy through advocacy, youth-centered programming, and narrative shift to achieve gender and racial justice.
A children's choir sings during Family Service in the Parish Hall
Faith EducationFaith Formation & EducationOctober 29, 2022

3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: Ordinary People Like Us

This long season after Pentecost, also called Ordinary Time, continues for another month. This week, we hear a story that some children might remember. It’s the story of Zacchaeus, who a lot of people didn’t like because of his behavior.
A beam of sunlight shines through a window in the bell tower of Trinity Church Wall Street
Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationOctober 27, 2022

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: To See and Be Seen

In our Gospel this week, we hear the story of Zacchaeus. Those of us who experienced formal faith formation in childhood will remember this story, as it was a favorite of Sunday school teachers because they thought children could relate to Zacchaeus’s height and, of course, climbing trees.
Members of Princeton Theological Seminary's Log College Project wear red shirts and smile at an unseen group. In the foreground is a young person of color with tattoos and glasses, standing next to a smiling Black woman looking directly at the camera. A young white woman wearing a white and black spotted backpack in another red shirt with blue dot logo that says "Log College Project" also smiles at the camera, while slightly blurred in the shot.
FeaturedOctober 26, 2022

Grantee Spotlight: Princeton Theological Seminary

In July 2022, Trinity and Princeton Theological Seminary formalized a partnership with an initial year-long grant of $290,000 to begin the work of transforming theological education. The ultimate goal of this work is to equip seminaries across North America to theologically form and practically prepare students to lead social innovation and entrepreneurial ministries.