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Last week, we talked about feelings and changes on the inside that are much harder to see in others, sometimes because they are very gradual. Changing who we are at heart, and our personal story paths, can also happen. All of these interior changes can only be witnessed by others through our actions. And sometimes our actions don’t honestly reflect our interiors.

Reducing the number of people in jail and protecting public safety are not contradictory. They are the twin goals of New York’s bail reform law.

We — and our world — have been transformed by the pandemic, racial reckoning, economic upheaval, and climate change. What will we let go of as we move into the season of Lent seeking new ways to be God’s people in the world? 

The Osborne Association is a leading service provider, advocate, and housing developer that works to eradicate housing instability and homelessness for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people in New York City.

Is there a difference between like and love? Jesus said that you don’t always have to like a person or their actions to love them as God loves all of us. It’s just a lot easier to love people who we like and know, or who know and like us.

Dr. Greg Garrett of Baylor University offers a workshop called "Racism, Racial Mythologies, and the White Church" on March 5, 2022 at Trinity Church Wall Street.

In this Sunday’s Gospel, part of the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus shows us the depths of God’s mercy. God sees us, in all our sin and failures, and loves us still, casting a merciful eye upon us and calling us beloved

Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain is all about love too — God’s love, which is not just for one special person at a time. It is for all people and creation, especially those who are hungry, hurting, and overlooked.

Jesus’ instructions reveal a radically new understanding of God’s dream for humanity; power, status, riches, joy, success, and prosperity do not necessarily signify blessing. Instead, “God has exalted the humble.”