Playing with the Trinity
A note from Jamie Howison: On Trinity Sunday - June 4, 2023 - we celebrated two baptisms at saint ben’s, and as I prepared my sermon I realized there was not better source for this Sunday that the inimitable Robert Farrar Capon. Capon begins his 1971 book The Third Peacock with the line “Let me tell you why God made the world,” and then launches into one of the most audacious takes of the image of the Trinity you can imagine. He even calls it a “crass analogy,” but quickly adds, “crass analogies are the safest.” Because I read a full page from the book, I determined it was best to simply post the audio podcast this week… and it is best to listen to Capon’s image than to read it!
A much younger version of Jamie Howison, with Robert Farrar Capon on Shelter Island, New York, in the autumn of 2020.