Dear Friends, Peter Higgs’ obituary was in The New York Times on Wednesday. In 1964, Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle that would explain how other particles acquire mass. That’s as far as I’m going to go in trying to explain his contribution to what’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
