September 30, 2001
The September 11th Timeline of Fr. Milton WilliamsOn September 11, as the first of the World Trade Center’s towers fell, Father Milton Williams crawled underneath a car on Fulton Street opposite the center and breathed, for some shocking seconds, black air that entered his lungs feeling like...
September 30, 2001
Savannah, GA Raises Money for New York, NYHundreds of miles away from “Ground Zero”, Page Case couldn’t take it any more. Four weeks later, with her women’s group, she’d helped her church, St. Thomas Episcopal on the Isle of Hope, near Savannah, Georgia, to raise $10,000 for ongoing relief..
September 30, 2001
The Power Of Authentic TheologyOn September 11 Trinity Church was hosting the Archbishop of Wales, Rowan Williams, widely considered to be one of the most profound theologians in the Anglican Communion. He had come to New York to deliver the Hobart Lecture at the Cathedral...
September 25, 2001
Trinity's Bronze Doors Swing Open Again, Parish's Mission 'Enhanced'The displaced members of Trinity Church, at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway, will reclaim their Gothic building slowly, guided by the step-by-step easing of restrictions on access to lower Manhattan which will mark the area's return from hell.
September 25, 2001
Back to Fundamental, Radical BasicsGrant us, O Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure.
September 23, 2001
Of Dust, A Church Bell And A Face Mask -- A Story From Ground ZeroOn Tuesday Sept. 11, like many others occupying offices in the skyscrapers that reached to the knees of the World Trade Center in New York, the Rev. Dr. Daniel Paul Matthews, Rector of Trinity Church in lower Manhattan, thought he was going to die.
September 23, 2001
What Do We Need To Dust Off?Sermon preached by the rev. Daniel paul matthews, D.D., rector of the parish of Trinity Church, Wall Street.
September 18, 2001
'Oh God Our Help In Ages Past' -- Worship Amid The BedlamWhen the first 110-storey tower of the World Trade Center fell on Tuesday September 11, some of Trinity Wall Street's clergy were leading an impromptu worship service in the church building around the corner.
September 18, 2001
Rescue Work Was 'Spirit-Lifting' -- Trinity PriestThe World Trade Center attack left Trinity Wall Street, in the words of the Rector, Dr. Daniel P. Matthews, "reeling with the shock of what has hit us..." Disruption of Trinity's activities was so extensive that one priest described...
September 16, 2001
'In the Shadow of The Cross' -- Trinity Resumes WorshipTrinity Church Wall Street has been worshipping on Sundays in downtown Manhattan for more than 300 years, and it wasn't going to allow the World Trade Center attack to prevent it having a Eucharist on Sunday September 16.