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Acclaimed conductor Jane Glover, who leads Trinity's performances this season, on what first captivated her about Handel’s masterpiece — and what keeps drawing her back.

The latest grants highlight Trinity’s commitments to addressing racial justice in childhood education, economic vitality and housing affordability.

Advent is a time of active waiting as we anticipate the birth of Jesus. As the Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles explains, it's a time to slow down and prepare our hearts for Christmas.

“This is our work: to commit ourselves to Jesus . . . the king who is a servant,” writes the Rev. Yein Kim. “Who comes, teaches, heals, reconciles, dies, and rises again, who lives through us and who will return.”

“Jesus repeatedly demonstrates that God is unafraid to stand with us amid our deepest fears and insecurities,” writes the Rev. Matthew Welsch. “God is not only with us when things are good and peaceful; God is with us when everything feels like it’s falling apart.”

Trinity Church is helping Hot Bread Kitchen prepare asylum seekers for a career in the city’s pro kitchens.  

“On the path of holiness,” writes Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, “God’s Spirit empowers us to participate in God’s healing work on earth every single day.”

“When we love one another despite our differences, and when we seek to make friends of enemies,” writes Summerlee Staten, “we make a powerful statement: We are willing to participate in God’s future.”

“We pattern our lives after Jesus’s teaching and example,” writes the Rev. Matt Welsch, “by putting others first, by caring for those who are outcast, and by positioning ourselves as children of God in need of God’s love and guidance.”

The Rev. Patrick Williams explains the origins of this day set aside for remembering loved ones who have died.