The Dean's Corner
Seasons of Life
The hardest year in my previous parish was also one of the most joyful. It was particularly difficult because it was one of those years where we just had a lot of funerals, including a number of pillars of the church. The sense of grief was palpa...
Read MoreThe Dignity of Democracy: No on Issue 1
On August 8 th , Ohio voters will decide on Issue 1, which would raise the threshold of approving constitutional amendments to 60%, up from its current required simple majority. At Trinity Cathedral, we have advocated for the current proposed ame...
Read MoreA Cathedral in Time
This past week has been one of the few “slow” times at the cathedral that I can remember, as so many staff members and congregational folks were away or simply taking advantage of the long July 4 th weekend. Though Trinity might sometimes s...
Read MoreA Message from Dean Owens: Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision
Years ago, I visited Harvard’s campus to consider attending divinity school there. I remember walking through the quad filled with stately centuries-old buildings, anchoring an elite institution where so many had gained (or been given) access t...
Read MoreAll People, Created Equal
Each year our nation celebrates Independence Day to mark the signing of a document in 1776 that many regard as the day when our country was born. It was a moment of idealism and struggle and an assertion of a polity based not upon tribe or cultur...
Read MoreA Legacy of Pride
Trinity is more than two centuries old, and one of our foundational stories goes back just over a generation, to the mid-1980’s. At the time PFLAG, a community of parents, families, and allies of LGBTQ+ folk, was looking for a church that coul...
Read MoreA Fond Farewell
One gift of being an Episcopal church is that we are not a single congregation (or cathedral) located in one place, but rather, each congregation or ministry is an expression of a wider diocese. We are richly blessed to share in a ministry that s...
Read MoreMore Faithful, Healthy and Effective
Congregational development is at the heart of what ministry leaders do. I am grateful that our vestry and staff and mission team leaders are constantly doing the work of prayerful discernment around how Trinity Cathedral, as a worshipping congreg...
Read MoreAn End to Gun Violence
We can end gun violence.
Each year 43,000 Americans are shot and killed. More than 75,000 more are wounded. Though shootings happen every day, it seems that every few weeks we are jolted awake once again by a new level of horror, be it a schoo...
Read MoreMany Voices, One Faith
When the Holy Spirit came down upon the apostles and the church was born, in tongues of flame and words in many languages, the first followers of Jesus learned something about what the body of Christ was supposed to look and sound like. The churc...
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