With respect to the recent article in The New York Times (“Rooted in Faith, Representing a New Conservatism: Amy Coney Barrett’s Path to a Court Pick,” October 11, 2020), the following is excerpted from a statement to our Trinity Schools families and the broader community. For the complete statement, please click here.
Trinity Schools are Christian schools with students from a variety of Christian denominations and religious traditions. We have morning prayer and study the Christian scriptures as a part of our coursework. We also strive to maintain a Christian culture in the school. Neither families nor students are required to be Christians in order to attend, nor are they asked to sign any statement of faith or agreement with the school. It is important, however, that parents understand and be able to support the culture that we are establishing.
As a Christian school that takes a clear position on marriage and sexuality, we are not alone in struggling with the challenge of how this affects our community and the education we offer. The changing cultural landscape of the past decade has made this a particularly volatile time. Many churches, schools, colleges and universities that take a position similar to ours are working hard to balance deeply held religious beliefs about marriage with an equally deeply held belief in the dignity of each human person.
In 2018 we worked closely with a number of parents to articulate a common vision for Trinity Schools’ culture. The product of those discussions was the document we now call A Culture of Learning and a Culture of Christian Life. We believe this statement represents a vision worth striving for — a vision for “a culture that is characterized by love of God and neighbor, and by joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, purity, truthfulness, gentleness and self-control (cf. Gal. 5:22; 2 Cor. 6:6-7).”