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Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Faithfully Walking Beside Each Other
October 29, 2021 | By Faith Formation and Education
In our own season of continued crisis, the Book of Ruth reminds us what it looks like to walk beside each other in both good times and bad.
Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: The Persistent Faith of Bartimaeus
October 21, 2021 | By Faith Formation and Education
Because of his faith, [Bartimaeus] sees more than the sighted. And he not only sees Jesus, but follows him “on the way,” renouncing what little he has. Bartimaeus, it seems, may understand the demands of discipleship more than the disciples do.
18 Months: Strengthening Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty
October 15, 2021 | By Emily Bloom, Director, Institutional Partnerships, Episcopal Relief & Development
Over the last 18 months, and in partnership with Trinity Church Wall Street, Episcopal Relief & Development's emergency response has reached 1.5 million people in 43 countries through COVID-19 prevention and control messaging campaigns, food and cash transfers, distribution of personal protective equipment and handwashing materials, support to survivors of gender-based violence, and pastoral and staff care.
Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Living a Life of Service
October 14, 2021 | By Faith Formation and Education
The story in Job this week casts a focus on themes of transactional entitlement — reward-punishment — in contrast to service and stewardship. The Psalm, in praise of God’s abundant and generous creation, and the Gospel, on Jesus’ example to give of himself in servitude and gratitude, provide some insight into our human and self-limiting capacity to recreate God’s kingdom — on earth, as it is in heaven.
When You Are Looking For God, God Will Find You
October 13, 2021 | By Dr. Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, Faith Formation and Education
So, then, is God looking for us or are we looking for God? Do we play hide-and-seek with God? Does God play hide-and-seek with us? Just how does this mysterious exchange of life between God and us play out?
Episcopal Relief & Development and Trinity Church Wall Street Continue Coordinated Global Response to COVID-19 Pandemic with $1 Million Renewal Grant
October 13, 2021
Episcopal Relief & Development and Trinity Church Wall Street are continuing to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic globally. The partnership, supported by a $1 million renewal grant from Trinity Church Wall Street, builds upon an original $1 million grant awarded last year that reached over 2.1 million individuals in 38 countries with expanded relief efforts and strengthened resilience activities.
Trinity Retreat Center Announces 2022 In-Person Retreats
October 12, 2021
The Trinity Retreat Center has released the schedule of its in-person retreats for 2022.
Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Mark 10
October 7, 2021 | By Faith Formation and Education
This week’s Gospel reading is a familiar and tough reading for those of us who live with more than just our basic needs, who seem to lack nothing. It highlights how our attachment to possessions keeps us from following Jesus and serving others — our true treasure and calling as Christians. This is a difficult message. Yet, the good news is that, “For mortals it is impossible, but not for God; for God all things are possible.” God is always calling us to shed what separates us from one another and from the Holy One.
Serving Brooklyn: Two Congregations, One Mission
October 4, 2021
Iglesia de Santa Cruz and Bushwick Abbey, two small congregations in Brooklyn, work with Trinity Church Wall Street to use their property assets to improve ministry.
Grantee Spotlight: Codrington College, Barbados
September 30, 2021
Codrington College's 2020 conference, "Leadership Innovation: Faith, Values, and Skills for the Church and the World," was an opportunity to build dialogue, exchange ideas, propose practical projects to integrate learning from secular and religious leadership development programs, and accelerate the implementation of leadership development in the context of theological education. It was a successful exercise in a last-minute pivot to convert a planned in-person conference to a virtual convening due to the COVID-19 pandemic.