Stories & News

A story explaining the connection between Halloween, All Saints' Day, and All Faithful Departed.

As we’ve noticed this fall, Jesus used parables to make a point, especially about matters of good character and behavior. Rather than shaming or calling out individuals, even people who were trying to insult him, Jesus sometimes exaggerated character flaws and situations in the parables and made them funny. By doing this, his point was made clear, but it also represented God’s kin-dom in loving and forgiving terms, which turned the former interpretations of religious laws of crime and punishment upside down.

God, who searches our hearts and motivations, calls on us to enact a posture of repentance. In such a posture, we open ourselves to God in full awareness of who we are. We can then experience God’s mercy and kindness as a gift of grace.

This week, we will be talking about interpretations of abstract concepts which Jeremiah and Jesus tried to apply to the realities of their followers’ lives. This isn’t easy to do with anyone, but it’s even harder with young children.

The Apostle Paul is the namesake of St. Paul's Chapel and is represented by two statues, one very old and one quite new.

Who among us will persist in the quest for justice? Like the widow pleading her own case before the unjust judge, we must not take no for an answer. It is a matter of faith. It is a matter of trust in God’s goodness — and in our commitment to claiming God’s reign of justice with constancy.

The Door’s mission is to empower young people to reach their potential by providing comprehensive youth development services in a diverse and caring environment.

God is always with us. Like all of the gifts of the Spirit — love, kindness, wisdom, joy, and more — faith isn’t a possession, and it can’t be hoarded to protect us. What we do with it is what matters.

With the launch of the Trinity Leadership Fellows program, we hope to have started a new way of training faith leaders. But more importantly, we hope to have created a program where those called to lonely journeys can travel together—as friends. 

We all have times in our lives when we feel like we’re in the wilderness and connection to community seems remote. Jesus can heal us in these times, and we can show our gratitude for this gift by offering this same love and healing to others.