Let’s Dance

Friday, June 24th, 2011 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Let’s Dance

We just celebrated Trinity Sunday, a feast that is normally a preacher’s nightmare, for not only is the mystery of the Trinity hard to explain, it’s easy to take a wrong turn and end up in some kind of heresy. ...

The Shadow of the Trinity

Monday, June 15th, 2009 Posted in writing | Comments Off on The Shadow of the Trinity

The church recently celebrated Trinity Sunday, when we recall that God is a community of three Persons. And though it may appear that the feast is solely a reminder of the nature of the Christian God, it is about us, ...

Trinity — a mystery worth thinking about

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in writing | Comments Off on Trinity — a mystery worth thinking about

On Trinity Sundays, most priests avoid preaching about the Trinity, presuming that there’s no hope in trying to get people to think about the inner life of God, Who is Three-in-One and One-in-Three. But it’s not impossible to talk ...