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Keeping Us Safe: The Facts on Bail Reform
February 25, 2022
Reducing the number of people in jail and protecting public safety are not contradictory. They are the twin goals of New York’s bail reform law.
Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: New Ways to Be God’s People
February 24, 2022
We — and our world — have been transformed by the pandemic, racial reckoning, economic upheaval, and climate change. What will we let go of as we move into the season of Lent seeking new ways to be God’s people in the world?
Grantee Spotlight: Osborne Association
February 21, 2022
The Osborne Association is a leading service provider, advocate, and housing developer that works to eradicate housing instability and homelessness for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people in New York City.
3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: The Difference Between Like and Love
February 20, 2022
Is there a difference between like and love? Jesus said that you don’t always have to like a person or their actions to love them as God loves all of us. It’s just a lot easier to love people who we like and know, or who know and like us.
Racial Mythologies: Recognition and Repentance
February 19, 2022
Dr. Greg Garrett of Baylor University offers a workshop called "Racism, Racial Mythologies, and the White Church" on March 5, 2022 at Trinity Church Wall Street.
Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Transformed by God’s Mercy
February 17, 2022
In this Sunday’s Gospel, part of the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus shows us the depths of God’s mercy. God sees us, in all our sin and failures, and loves us still, casting a merciful eye upon us and calling us beloved
3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: God’s Love For All
February 13, 2022
Jesus’ Sermon on the Plain is all about love too — God’s love, which is not just for one special person at a time. It is for all people and creation, especially those who are hungry, hurting, and overlooked.
Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: God’s Way Is Plain
February 10, 2022
Jesus’ instructions reveal a radically new understanding of God’s dream for humanity; power, status, riches, joy, success, and prosperity do not necessarily signify blessing. Instead, “God has exalted the humble.”
3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: God Is Always With Us
February 7, 2022
It can be a hard to try something new, or something that you don’t think you’re good at doing or being. Jesus made sure [his friends] knew that he would be with them, and God is always with us when we’re trying, when we’re making mistakes, and when we’re achieving.
Grantee Spotlight: Diocese of Rumonge, Burundi
February 7, 2022
The Birimba Medical Clinic project expanded an existing ministry in Burundi to improve healthcare access in a rural community and helped the Diocese of Rumonge to qualify for higher subsidies for their services, thus improving profitability.