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Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Live By Me, Not By Fear
November 11, 2022 | By Faith Formation and Education
We can’t easily make sense of Jesus’s harsh apocalyptic portrayal today, and an exclusively literal interpretation misses an important message: there comes a time in the spiritual life where one can choose either to despair or to endure.
All Saints' Sunday Baptisms at Trinity
November 9, 2022 | By James Melchiorre
Trinity Church Wall Street celebrated the Sacrament of Baptism on Sunday, November 6, 2022.
Grantee Spotlight: Girls for Gender Equity
November 9, 2022
Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) works intergenerationally, through a Black feminist lens, to center the leadership of Black girls and gender-expansive young people of color in reshaping culture and policy through advocacy, youth-centered programming, and narrative shift to achieve gender and racial justice.
3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: When the Saints Go Marching In
November 5, 2022 | By Faith Formation & Education
This Sunday is all about the saints who came before us, the ordinary saints who live among us, and those who are joining our company of saints in Holy Baptism.
Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: An Upside-Down World
November 3, 2022 | By Faith Formation and Education
At first glance, it seems that Jesus is setting out a diagram of opposites. It is an upside-down world: the great reversal that the reign of God brings.
3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: Ordinary People Like Us
October 29, 2022 | By Faith Formation & Education
This long season after Pentecost, also called Ordinary Time, continues for another month. This week, we hear a story that some children might remember. It’s the story of Zacchaeus, who a lot of people didn’t like because of his behavior.
Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: To See and Be Seen
October 27, 2022 | By Faith Formation and Education
In our Gospel this week, we hear the story of Zacchaeus. Those of us who experienced formal faith formation in childhood will remember this story, as it was a favorite of Sunday school teachers because they thought children could relate to Zacchaeus’s height and, of course, climbing trees.
Grantee Spotlight: Princeton Theological Seminary
October 26, 2022
In July 2022, Trinity and Princeton Theological Seminary formalized a partnership with an initial year-long grant of $290,000 to begin the work of transforming theological education. The ultimate goal of this work is to equip seminaries across North America to theologically form and practically prepare students to lead social innovation and entrepreneurial ministries.
Allhallowtide: Remembering the Communion of Saints
October 25, 2022 | By James Melchiorre
A story explaining the connection between Halloween, All Saints' Day, and All Faithful Departed.
3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: Wonderfully Made
October 22, 2022 | By Faith Formation & Education
As we’ve noticed this fall, Jesus used parables to make a point, especially about matters of good character and behavior. Rather than shaming or calling out individuals, even people who were trying to insult him, Jesus sometimes exaggerated character flaws and situations in the parables and made them funny. By doing this, his point was made clear, but it also represented God’s kin-dom in loving and forgiving terms, which turned the former interpretations of religious laws of crime and punishment upside down.