Apr 4, 2024
Dear Friends, Happy Easter! We’re still in the Great Fifty Days of the Easter season that began on Easter Day and continues through the Day of Pentecost. This is the most joyous and celebrative season of the Christian Year! Our celebration continues this coming Sunday...
Mar 29, 2024
Dear Friends, This letter will arrive in your inbox early on Good Friday morning. Trinity is offering two ways to observe this most solemn of days: • The Liturgy of Good Friday at 12:00 noon • Stations of the Cross at 7:00 pm (this service will be livestreamed) Easter...
Mar 21, 2024
Dear Friends, In her 2009 book, The Case for God, Karen Armstrong argued that religion is a practical discipline that teaches us to discover new capacities of the mind and heart. What new capacities of the mind and heart might we cultivate during the holiest week of...
Mar 14, 2024
Dear Friends, The three traditional practices for Lent are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. I want to talk about the first of the three – prayer. Each Sunday, the person leading the Prayers of the People references those on “the Trinity prayer list.” I thought...
Mar 7, 2024
Dear Friends, Since Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has so much going on, I’m not sure when he has time to sleep. Professor Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard...
Feb 29, 2024
Dear Friends, Spring training began this past week as baseball teams reported to Florida – the Grapefruit League – or Arizona – the Cactus League. Pitchers and catchers always show up first. Then the position players arrive, some of them grizzled veterans, some of...
