Reflections on The Feast of the Holy Trinity
I want to give attribution right off for some of the information that I am going to share today – the Feast of the Holy Trinity. At the conference I attended in Minneapolis I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Diana Butler Bass speak and it is to her that I owe some of these thoughts, along with Dr. Marcus Borg (his new book "Speaking Christian"). When I was serving at a previous congregation, before coming to Peace, I had a member of the congregation tell me once that every time she said the creed she crossed her fingers behind her back. Why, I asked. Well, the creeds were all about the Trinity and how could she say she believed something that she didn’t understand. Hmmm – well. So, is that what the creed is? Is the creed just series of statements to which we are to assent and affirm as if we were going down a list? Trinity is ultimately a mystery, as are several other things mentioned in the creed, including the Resurrection, the descent into hell (or “t...