Trinity Sunday (Year A, RCL)

Will the water bring death or life?

When they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted. Passages like this assure me there’s a place for me and the people I serve. Unlike John’s story of Thomas, Matthew didn’t single out one disciple as the doubter. He says that “some doubted.”

From the first instant of creation, water has played midwife to God’s creation story. After the flood, God set a rainbow in the clouds. God saw your people as slaves in Egypt, and led them to freedom through the sea. God brought their children through the Jordan to a promised land. And in the fullness of time, God sent Jesus, nurtured in the water of a womb.

Compared to cosmologists, theologians have the advantage—and disadvantage—of revelation.

The baptism of Jesus is Mark's Christmas story.

This Sunday's readings provide Bible backup for a nonscriptural word.