Faithful defiance: Desmond Tutu V
The conclusion of this series on Desmond Tutu focuses on the campaign of the former South African government's campaign against his family. Courtesy Trinity Television and New Media.
Faithful Defiance: Desmond Tutu IV
The fight for economic sanctions brought Desmond Tutu into conflict with the South African government. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Faithful defiance: Desmond Tutu III
"Each time that he preaches, I think that my freedom is coming tomorrow," a South African woman said of Desmond Tutu. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Faithful Defiance: Desmond Tutu II
The day that a white Anglican priest tipped his hat to Desmond Tutu's mother was a pivotal one in the future archbishop's life. Video courtesy of Trinity Television.
Faithful Defiance: Desmond Tutu I
"All we want is our God-given freedom to be human in the land of our birth." The first in a multi-part series from Trinity, Wall Street.
Against faith-sanctioned violence
"The self-justified truth claim, whether religious or otherwise, is the source of all violence," says Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. Video courtesy of Trinity Institute.
The joy of Easter
"You come from darkness into the light, and it represents everything that is wonderful and beautiful about our faith." Video courtersey of Trinity Television and New Media.
Maundy Thursday
"Washing someone else's feet is very intimate," says a parishoner at Trinity Wall Street of the Maundy Thursday service. "It usually is not part of our experience of worship."
Palm Sunday
Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday on March 16. Trinity Television and New Media examines the meaning of this special day in the Church's year.
"A great collection of possibility"
How do you speak into the real life of young adults? The Boston Young Adult Ministry has a few ideas. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
In prison and you visited me
Rima Vesely Flad, founder of ICARE has devoted her life to prison ministry and advocacy. Inmates, she says, have been among her greatest teachers. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Revelation unfolding
"The nature of life and of the Christian journey is wrestling," says Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. Video courtesy of Trinity Institute.
Mastering the will to dominate
Tariq Ramadan says dogmatic rationalists are as blind as religious fanatics. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Beyond a European Christ
"I wanted to bring the blackness of my identity together with my faith," says theologian James Cone. Video courtesy of Trinity Institute.
Godly politics
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught his daughter Susannah that a religious person must be politically aware. Video courtesy of Trinity Institute.
Does religion breed violence?
James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword, is among the featured speakers in Trinity Institute's next webcast conference, An Interfaith Dialog on Religion and Violence, January 21-23.
Watch this space for in-depth interviews with all five presenters, including James H. Cone, Susannah Heschel and Tariq Ramadan. Find a teleconference site in your area.
Walking to Emmaus
We are featuring a much longer video clip than usual because the Rev. James Cooper's sermon is the most in-depth description of the Road to Emmaus consultation, held in Madrid in July, that we have heard.
The meeting, put together by Trinity Church, Wall Street, of which Cooper is rector, brought together about two dozen bishops from the Episcopal Church and two dozen from Africa. It was a fairly quiet affair, the better to foster conversation, and many American bishops left feeling that the Anglican Communion was not as broken as they had once assumed, and that there were many bishops in many countries willing to work with them, regardless of differences over issues of human sexuality. This meeting is primarily responsible for the optimism that at least some liberal Episcopal bishops feel about the future of the Communion. It has also served as a template of sorts for the planning of the Lambeth Conference.
Guns into ploughshares
Bishops in Mozambique and Connecticut have forged a unique partnership to take guns out of homes and to replace weaponry with tools of production. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
The joy of Christmas
We here at Episcopal Cafe, along with our partners at Episcopal Church in the Visual Arts and Trinity Television and New Media wish you a blessed Christmas.
The meaning of Advent
Parishioners at Trinity Church, Wall Street, share their feelings about a season of beauty and prayerful anticipation. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Jesus' bedtime prayers
Joan Borysenko prays and sings the night time prayers of an observant first century Jew. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Death as transition
Megory Anderson, founder of the Sacred Dying Foundation in San Francisco, contends that death is not a failure, but a transition, and that God is present to the dying. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
The Divine invitation
Father Thomas Keating says our relationship with God can "get deeper and better and more profound," if we set aside time to leave behind our "ordinary, every-day, psychological awareness." Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
As though the Kingdom has come
The triumph of the Solidarity movement in Poland demonstrates that "the Kingdom of God is already happening," says Biblical scholar Walter Wink. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: a profile
Bill Moyers narrates the journey of one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians and martyrs. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Active waiting
Author Sue Monk Kidd talks about the courage it takes to endure "threshold moments," in our spiritual growth. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Forgiveness in the extreme
Theologian Miroslav Volf tells the story of the death of his five-year-old brother, and how his parents came to forgive the man who was responsible. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Escaping internalized oppression
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons says the oppressed "have work to do," to rid themselves of the anger and self-loathing that oppression generates before true reconciliation can occur. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Fragments Catholic and gay
"The gay issue, it comes down to something very simple," says the Rev. James Alison, author of Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay. "Either there is or there isn't such a thing as being gay." Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Education for Ministry
An inspiring look at turning theological education into action through small group reflection. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
The school of love
The Rev. Alan Jones explains how St. Francis of Assisi had a head-on collision with the living God. It knocked him silly, but it also knocked him into the kingdom. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
What would Judas do?
Café contributor Deidre Good, professor of New Testament at the General Theological Seminary discusses some of the theological issues raised by the rediscovery of the Gospel of Judas. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Meaning and misunderstanding
The Rev. Barbara Crafton, author of Mass in a Time of War, says we can understand death, but an understanding of the Resurrection eludes us. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Not forsaken
Author and critic Phyllis Tickle explains what comes after the feeling: "Oh God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Dakota: A spiritual geography
Baking bread, washing clothes, writing poetry, author Kathleen Norris, a Benedictine oblate, unearths the mystical pull of the Dakotas. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Day, King, Romero, you?
Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners Magazine, describes the role of the church in times when political leadership breaks down. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
The divine embrace
Archbishop Tutu reminds us that God's embrace includes people who'd never dream of embracing one another--you and your worst enemy. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Unchanging love
Abp Tutu explains there's nothing we can do to make God love us more: "We are, each one of us, the very best thing that God ever created." Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
It takes a village
The Rev. Michael Battle explains an African theology in which “a person is a person through other persons.” Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Reconciliation stories: Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean says we are all worth more than the worst thing we've done. Courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
A momentary community
Journalist John Hockenberry watches a community coalesce during a surprising ride on the New York City subway. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
Consenting to the presence of God
Father Thomas Keating, Cistercian monk and guiding spirit of the Centering Prayer movement, says that intimacy with God requires not effort, but simple consent. Video courtesy of Trinity Television and New Media.
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