Nov 20, 2025
Dear Friends, As I write this, I’m getting myself ready to head out on my first monastic retreat since I’ve been at Trinity. By the time you read it, I’ll be on the tail end of that retreat, about to head home. I try to take these kinds of retreats twice a year –...
Nov 13, 2025
Dear friends, On Saturday, December 6 we can show up in a way that no one has in the past six years in Toledo. In the early 2010’s photographer Jeremy Cowart founded an organization that turned into a movement called Help Portrait. It was a place where our siblings on...
Nov 6, 2025
Dear Friends, In last week’s Topics article, Jon outlined what Trinity’s Celebration of New Ministry is all about: “to mark ways that ministry is new and renewed for the whole congregation when a priest is first called to a parish.” In my role on Altar Guild, Jon told...
Oct 30, 2025
Dear Friends, You’ve been hearing a lot about our Celebration of New Ministry that’s coming up. The whole staff, along with lots of other members of the leadership at this parish have been working hard for weeks (some of us months!) putting together a day that will...
Oct 23, 2025
Dear Friends, We’re coming up on All Saints’ Sunday, and with that, there are a few things happening to get us ready for it. First, as is our custom, we’ll be remembering the saints who have fed us and inspired us in our own lives and who have gone before. You are...
Oct 16, 2025
Dear Friends, One of my favorite things about the people depicted in the Old Testament is their complexity. They aren’t perfect. They struggle with God. They ask the hard questions. They cry out when things aren’t going well. They have real human feelings toward their...
