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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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Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationOctober 26, 2023

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: The Choice to Love

Looking over the past few weeks’ Gospel readings, Kathryn Carroll, Program Manager, Children and Family Formation, suggests “if we remove what sounds to our ears as treachery or snark, the conversation becomes deeply philosophical and filled with longing,” leading us to ponder the divinity of Jesus, humanity, and ourselves.
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Grants and PartnersStephanie ChrispinOctober 24, 2023

Housing Tech: Opportunities for Innovation & Advocacy

On October 19, 2023, Trinity hosted a half-day symposium for advocates, organizers, and technologists to discuss and share innovations, strategies, and outcomes at the intersection of housing justice and technology.
Who Keeps the Keeper program participants sit in a circle in group discussion at the Trinity Retreat Center.
FeaturedCheavanese DiedrickOctober 23, 2023

Self-Care as Social Justice

Trinity partnered with its grantee The BREATHE Collective to launch Who Keeps the Keeper (WKTK), a nine-month program designed to help combat burnout and exhaustion and promote self-care and healing for our Keepers, those working tirelessly on the front lines of our movement for equity, justice, and safety.

The ornamented vault of the entry vestibule Trinity Church.
Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationOctober 19, 2023

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: All Belongs to God

God made the world and created us in God’s image. We, in turn, have created political structures and currency — which can be used for good or not. But Jesus tells us we must always put God first, in every decision we make, in how we use our resources and the resources of the earth.
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Faith EducationFaith Formation and EducationOctober 12, 2023

Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Connected to the Mind of Christ

“The idea of unity is not just some pie-in-the-sky idea that sounds nice on paper,” writes Summerlee Staten. “For [the Apostle] Paul, unity in Christ is a metaphysical reality that has the power to transform the world.”
A photo collage with intersecting images of an Indigenous person and stained-glass
Faith EducationSummerlee StatenOctober 9, 2023

Uplifting Indigenous Voices, Today and Every Day

This fall at Trinity Church, we’re hosting a variety of faith formation programs that welcome and uplift Indigenous voices. Today on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and every day in the life of our parish, we elevate Indigenous stories, experiences, and spiritualities — and celebrate the prismatic ways they inform and enrich The Episcopal Church and our communal faith.
September 27, 2023, Mental Health Symposium
FeaturedJessica AthensOctober 9, 2023

Housing Reform Is Mental Healthcare

People without homes live in greater peril of poor mental health, and a steep rise in homelessness in New York City is exacerbating that danger. Trinity Church Wall Street’s fourth symposium on mental health on September 27 focused on this intersection between homelessness and mental health crises.
The Rev. Phil Jackson
FeaturedThe Rev. Phillip A. JacksonOctober 5, 2023

Welcoming the Stranger: A Letter from Fr. Phil

The Rev. Phil Jackson, Trinity‘s Rector, reflects on Trinity’s commitment to caring for our neighbors, no matter where they’ve come from or how long they’ve been here.