We invite you to join us Sunday mornings to experience our services, which are traditional in worship, rich in liturgy, and strong in Christian education.

 

Holy Trinity Anglican Church is a parish of the Reformed Episcopal Church, formed in 1873 to maintain the Reformation spirit of Anglicanism in the United States.  After the Holy Bible, the REC is grounded in the creeds of the historic church, the Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer.

 

The Reformed Episcopal Church is a founding jurisdiction of the Anglican Church in North America, constituted in 2008 to preserve and advance the orthodox and historic Anglican witness in the United States and Canada.​

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*The Collect, Epistle, and Gospel readings for the Second Sunday after Trinity can be found on p. 212-214 in the Book of Common Prayer.

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Sunday School

Sunday, 9:30 a.m.

Genesis: The God You Never Expected (see below for details)

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Proclamation of Scripture and Celebration of Holy Communion

Sunday,10:30 a.m.

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Evensong

Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

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Genesis: The God You Never Expected

Sundays 9:30–10:15 AM; June 14 - August 16  •  No meeting July 6

 

For thousands of years, human beings have casually opened their Bibles to the book of Genesis . . . only to find themselves in a vast landscape both familiar and strange.

 

Genesis: The God You Never Expected is a ten-week mission to follow those who have traveled into Genesis before. To explore strange new passages. To seek out the living God in ancient words. To encounter a realm that cannot be managed, predicted, or exhausted. To boldly go where the faithful have always gone — and never returned from unchanged.

 

Genesis is one of the most extraordinary and least honestly examined books in the Bible. It is routinely domesticated — reduced to children's stories, co-opted into debates about science and creation, or read in fragments stripped of their story-telling power. This study proposes to read Genesis as the strange, powerful, and often unsettling text it actually is.

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Governing Themes

Your God Is Too Small

Borrowed from J.B. Phillips' classic 1952 diagnosis of the church's diminished vision of God, this theme runs through every session. Genesis presents a God who is cosmic, untamable, linguistically indescribable, who cannot be captured by logic alone — but . . . who is simultaneously personal, intimate, and present to the specific circumstances of broken human families. You will be invited to let your vision of God be enlarged by what the text actually says.

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Private Failure Has Cosmic Consequences

Genesis is unflinching about human dysfunction and its long reach. Adam and Eve's choice alters the fabric of creation for all time. One drunken night produces consequences that ripple forward through centuries of subsequent ethnic generations. Jacob's favoritism fractures a family across a lifetime. These are honest, unfiltered accounts of how human choices enter the world and travel further than anyone ever imagined they would. It is an antidote to the modern concept of “victimless crimes” and private sins.

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You Are Your Own Bible Story

The humans in Genesis did not know they were living in a Bible story. Joseph, in the pit, had no idea he was a main character. This study will invite you to recognize your individual life story is being co-written by the same author who told the stories of Sarah, Abraham, and Noah.

 

The Text Can’t Be Tamed

Let God be God, let the text say what it says. Don’t try to explain away or be afraid of the implications of what it says. The Word of God is powerful. Don’t expect to fully understand it.

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June 14

Four Letters That Changed Everything

YHWH — The name. The power of naming. The problem of identity.

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June 21

You’re Only As Sick as Your Secrets

Genesis 3. Moral failure that leads to hiding. Private failure, cosmic consequences.

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June 28

God's Surprising First Choices: Cain v. Abel

Why Abel? God's choices resist human logic from the beginning. The pattern that will define the whole book.

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July 5 — SKIP

HOLIDAY

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July 12

One Night of Drunken Celebration

The unintended consequences of Noah celebrating; notice who suffers the consequences.

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July19

Abraham: Called from Nowhere

Genesis 12. No resume. No obvious qualification. The pattern deepens — God chooses the unlikely and promises the laughable.

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July 26

Sarah and Hagar

Two women, one household, impossible circumstances. Hagar in the wilderness — God appears to the slave, the outsider, the one nobody expected. El Roi: the God who sees me.

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Aug 2

Tamar

A woman navigating severely constrained circumstances with remarkable agency. Arguably the most righteous person in her narrative. God's surprising choices operating through the most compromised circumstances.

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Aug 9

Lot's Daughters: A Hard Text

The story begins with Lot offering his daughters to the mob, then what follows. The Moabite lineage that leads to Ruth, to David, to the whole royal line. Art as lens: how painters have handled this scene — and what their choices reveal.

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Aug 16

Joseph: Your Life Is a Bible Story

Genesis 37-50 in overview. The pit, the prison, the palace. A man who cannot read his own story while living it. You are your own Bible story — living it without chapter headings, trusting the author. The culminating story!

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Your Guide & Outfitter

Kristine Christlieb is a writer, news producer, and educator. Her work has appeared in Christianity Today, the Christian Standard, The Federalist, the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Stream.org, and other publications. She is currently managing editor of Michigan Fair Elections Institute’s news division where she regularly writes about challenges in administering American elections.

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