Pastor's Corner October is Stewardship Emphasis Month at Trinity Stewardship is the church's word for the faithful management of all the gifts God has given us. Every fall at Trinity we are asked to take inventory of all the gifts God has given each of us and consider ways to give back to God the giver a portion of those gifts and share them with the Church and with God's wider world. Below I have listed the gifts that all of us have been given by God and the scriptures that guide us in the...

Pastor's Corner The Interconnectedness of All Creation September is “Season of Creation” month at Trinity! Thinkers throughout history have asserted that everyone and everything in creation is connected. They ask us to imagine everyone and everything in creation are all in a big web together, so that if one person or thing disturbs the web in any way, the effects are felt in every other part of the web. The great naturalist, preservationist and environmentalist largely responsible for the...

Pastor's Corner A Repeating Story in the Bible: Human Oppression Followed by Divine Liberation The defining story in Judaism is the Exodus story, God’s liberation through Moses of the Israelites from their slavery to the Egyptian Empire. The defining story in Christianity is God sending Jesus the Messiah to be born in a Jewish outpost in the midst of the oppressive Roman Empire, and his good news proclamation of a new life-giving alternative to Rome and all other empires, which was a...