Becoming Beloved Community

Becoming Beloved Community

Beloved Friends- Welcome to our Lenten journey. Lent is our season in the church that began two days ago on Ash Wednesday (February 17th), leads us over the course of a 40-day pilgrimage of sorts, takes us to Holy Week (March 28th- April 3rd) and then, eventually, to...
YWCA 21-Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge

YWCA 21-Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge

The YWCA of Northwest Ohio, whose mission includes the eradication of racism, invites the community to a 21-Day Challenge beginning March 1.  Each weekday through the end of March, participants will be emailed an invitation to such activities as reading...
Feast Day of Absalom Jones

Feast Day of Absalom Jones

Beloved Friends- Sunday we will celebrate the Feast Day of Absalom Jones. Absalom Jones was born enslaved to Abraham Wynkoop a wealthy Anglican planter in 1746 in Delaware. He would go on to be an abolitionist and clergyman who, due to his passion for the gospel and...
The Idol of Whiteness

The Idol of Whiteness

Beloved Friends- We are 3 weeks into a 12-week film and discussion series on Faith and Race at Trinity. Each Wednesday we are gathering for a short, but rich hour from 7:00-8:00, taking time for a brief check-in, then watching a short interview by a leading...
Celebration of Endings

Celebration of Endings

Beloved Friends- This Sunday we will gather after our service to celebrate the year we have just ended and to look forward with hope and gratitude at what lies ahead. Here are the words I used to describe some of the ways I will remember 2020 in our Annual Report:...