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Parish Life October 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 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 opened 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.
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Featured September 3, 2024

A Letter from Father Phil

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Faith EducationThe Faith Formation TeamMarch 15, 2024

Scripture Reflection: What We Gain by Letting Go

What does it mean to follow Jesus’s example and lay down our lives? Trinity’s Faith Formation team suggests “it’s in letting go of power, the endless work of protecting ourselves at the expense of others, that we find true freedom — our deepest wants and needs met in community.”
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Faith EducationThe Faith Formation TeamMarch 8, 2024

Scripture Reflection: Overcoming the Wilderness

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son . . .” might be the most well-known verse in the Bible — but what about Jesus’s mysterious words just before? Digging into the Book of Numbers for context, Trinity’s Faith Formation team helps us see God asking us to trust that even in the most uncertain circumstances, resurrection is on the way.
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FeaturedMarch 8, 2024

How Holy Week Services Help Us Walk With Jesus

During Holy Week, we ground ourselves in the scriptural accounts of Jesus’s life in the liturgy — the order and shape of our church services — because we believe this ancient story echoes through the ages: Jesus’s resurrection is a promise that death is not the final word.
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Faith EducationThe Faith Formation TeamMarch 1, 2024

Scripture Reflection: Transformed From the Inside Out

This Sunday’s Gospel story — when Jesus drives money changers out of the temple court — is familiar but puzzling. Is Jesus overturning worship norms, or is there more to the story? Trinity’s Faith Formation team suggests there’s a deeper meaning behind Jesus’s demonstration: It’s a proclamation of God’s presence alive and at work within each of us.
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Faith EducationThe Faith Formation TeamFebruary 23, 2024

Scripture Reflection: Not the End of the Story

“Death isn’t a secret or surprise for any of us, even Jesus. In fact, it’s an essential part of being alive. But when we spend our time and energy fighting the inevitable, we lose sight of the life happening right in front of us.” Trinity’s Faith Formation team digs into Sunday’s scripture reading from Mark’s Gospel and considers a paradox of the Christian faith: The path to wholeness, purpose, and connection is through surrender.
A parishioner bows in prayer in Trinity Church
Faith EducationThe Faith Formation TeamFebruary 16, 2024

Scripture Reflection: Fully Embracing God’s Love

Looking ahead to Sunday’s scripture readings, Trinity’s Faith Formation team considers what it means to fully embrace God’s love, even when it leads us down unexpected and sometimes uncomfortable paths: “Who knows where God will send us — beloved and driven by the Spirit — to help heal our broken world?”
Lenten meditation 2024
CommunityFebruary 13, 2024

Lenten Meditations 2024

Every year, Trinity parishioners, clergy, and staff offer a book of meditations based on the lectionary readings to accompany us through the season of Lent. Some are written reflections, others are paintings or photographs. All are insightful, meditative, and a gift from the parish to the reader.
A 15th-century Greek icon depicting Jesus's transfiguration
Faith EducationSummerlee StatenFebruary 9, 2024

Down from the Mountaintop

”This is how mountaintop experiences — epiphanies and revelations that open our minds to new realities — change us,” writes Summerlee Staten, reflecting on Jesus's transfiguration. ”We come to understand the mystery of God in a new way, and by comparison the miracles we experienced before seem ordinary.”

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