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As a continued reflection on the Trinity I want to discuss Jürgen Moltmann’s idea of the Trinity as an event. This week I will post an open quote, and go from there next week. “In the cross, Father and Son are most deeply separated in forsakenness and at the same time are most inwardly one in their surrender. What proceeds from this event between Father and Son is the Spirit which justifies the godless, fills the forsaken with love and even brings the dead alive, since even the fact that they are dead cannot exclude them from this event of the cross; the death in God also includes them.” These are two packed sentences. I welcome any reflections, questions, thoughts and/or provocations, whatever. I look forward to walking with you as we reflect on the meaning of the Trinity in the event of the cross during Lent. Blessings. (Special note, the photo is a picture I took of my good friend Julie Scheibel practicing spiritual finger-painting)

(Typically this blog will update once a week with a reflection about the Trinity. Recently, however, I spent 10 days in Central America, and was unable to update. As such, this is the last entry in a series of four reflections of the trip.) Part IV. Evangelical Challenges: The most significant challenge I encountered was the reality of a globalized economy that favors some and creates overwhelming poverty for others. This is a challenge for a number of reasons. For one thing, poverty anywhere in the world undermines the basic proclamation that all of creation has its being in Christ (1 Cor. 8.6, A Social Statement on: Freed in Christ: Race, Ethnicity and Culture). A practical challenge global inequality creates is how sisters and brothers in Christ are to live together. Global inequality reinforces the historical discrimination that puts western and northern Europeans above all other ethnicities of the world. This historical discrimination is apparent in America’s Immig...

(Typically this blog will update once a week with a reflection about the Trinity. Recently, however, I spent 10 days in Central America, and was unable to update. As such, this is the third entry in a series of four reflections of the trip.) Part III. Post Immersion Impressions: My post immersion impression really began to take shape about a week into the trip. By day four I noticed my journal entries had become more invested, longer, thoughtful and questioning. No longer did my entries just consist of what I had eaten, and seen. Slowly I began to describe how I was experiencing everything; how I felt, how I agreed, how I understood (or did not), how I thought this would impact me for the rest of my life. By day seven, then, I had wrestled with how and was beginning to look to being back in my context. I did know, however, that my context would be forever changed by this experience. So, as the immersion came to an end, and I find myself again in a privileged wealthy ...