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Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: How to Reorganize the World

November 2, 2023 | By Faith Formation and Education

Jesus’s teaching in his Sermon on the Mount gives us a “new vision of how the world should be organized,” upending the status quo “by favoring the poor, the merciful, the mourning, and those rejected for doing the right thing,” writes Dr. Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, Associate Director, Spiritual Practices, Retreats, & Pilgrimage. “How shocking that the way to blessedness is through inadequacy and vulnerability.”

Susan Shah stands at a podium in front of digital signage that reads "The Future of Rikers Island: Why It Matters."
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It's Time to Close Rikers Island

October 27, 2023 | By Stephanie Chrispin

A summary of an event on October 15, 2023 organized by members of Trinity Church Wall Street's Prison Ministry to discuss the closing of Rikers Island Jail and how to advocate for that closing.

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

October 26, 2023 | By Faith Formation and Education

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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Housing Tech: Opportunities for Innovation & Advocacy

October 24, 2023 | By Stephanie Chrispin

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.
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Self-Care as Social Justice

October 23, 2023 | By Cheavanese Diedrick

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.

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

October 19, 2023 | By Faith Formation and Education

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

October 12, 2023 | By Faith Formation and Education

“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.”

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Uplifting Indigenous Voices, Today and Every Day

October 9, 2023 | By Summerlee Staten

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.