Luminous Darkness

This is the Sunday when nobody ever wants to preach – the curate always gets that job assigned by the vicar – because talking about the trinity is not easy. Or rather, it is very easy to talk about the trinity, but much more difficult to do so whilst not straying outside the boundaries of orthodoxy, especially when speaking to congregations that tend to be less educated theologically than they once were. I freely admit that I took a bit of an easy way out in this sermon, letting the archbishop of Canterbury speak about the trinity for me with one of my images, but his language is very interesting since it comes from a lecture he gave on Christian belief and practice to a group of Muslims at the Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan. The full lecture can be read via the Anglican Communion News Service.

My sermon can be read here: Trinity Sunday 2006.

This is the Sunday when nobody ever wants to preach – the curate always gets that job assigned by the vicar – because talking about the trinity is not easy. Or rather, it is very easy to talk about the trinity, but much more difficult to do so whilst not straying outside the boundaries of orthodoxy, especially when speaking to congregations that tend to be less educated theologically than they once were. I freely admit that I took a bit of an easy way out in this sermon, letting the archbishop of Canterbury speak about the trinity for me with one of my images, but his language is very interesting since it comes from a lecture he gave on Christian belief and practice to a group of Muslims at the Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan. The full lecture can be read via the Anglican Communion News Service.

My sermon can be read here: Trinity Sunday 2006.