First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday

The Rev. Rachel Dykzeul On Trinity Sunday, the preacher reflects on the Trinity not as a doctrine to be solved but as a mystery to be embraced. Recalling a childhood conversation with a pastor grandfather who admitted he could not explain the Trinity, she argues that humility before divine mystery is an essential part of faith. Drawing on Genesis, she highlights the plural and relational language used for God and suggests that creation itself reveals a God who exists in community rather than isolation. The sermon contrasts this vision with the ancient world’s belief in many competing gods, using the Babylonian creation story, the Enuma Elish, as an example. Whereas those gods were violent, transactional, and self-interested, the Christian understanding of God reveals an eternal community of love. Because God is love—not merely loving—the Trinity becomes a model for human relationships, care for creation, and communal life. The preacher concludes that the Trinity invites people into a “divine dance” of relational love. Rather than clinging to certainty or systems of domination, Christians are called to embrace mystery, diversity, community, and the fundamental goodness of creation as reflections of God's own life.