When we gather for church on Sunday, we will be celebrating a second principle feast in a row: Trinity Sunday. And every time it comes around, I make the same statement: the feast of a theological concept.

What we celebrate, of course, is the idea that God is three persons and one god. Three. And one. At the same time. And also, not ever not. Always three and always one and never not three and not one.

This, of course, is an obsession for the Western Church. We try so hard to maintain this paradox of eternal singularity for God that I can’t help thinking we’ve got an unhealthy attachment to certainty.

Another vision of Trinity is less constructed. The Trinity as a divine dance, a trio: community. That God reflects who we are to be as the church. Not individuals looking out for ourselves, but one. Always one.