This Sunday is Trinity Sunday. It's also around this time of year that many churches end their church school programs, and kids come and sit with their parents in the pews. Which means that the first sermon they hear of the summer will, quite possibly, consist of obtuse theological wool-gathering. Anytime anyone starts talking about … Continue reading The Trinity Surrenders
Author: KPB Stevens
1 Samuel 8
Here's an illuminated sketch for a kids activity book that I'm working on for the Second Sunday after Pentecost. More to come as I get more of the book done.
Cellular Connections
"Moms must be many in one." That's how Jena Pincott ends her article on fetal cells (Our Selves, Other Cells). She's talking about a phenomena called microchimerism, named for the mythic beast that is made up of many different animals, usually depicted as having three heads, one a goat's, one a dragon's, and one a … Continue reading Cellular Connections
Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich didn’t see sin, and the pain and suffering which accompany it, as a problem which could be solved theologically. For her, sin is an existential state of ignorance, which humanity can escape from by arriving at a greater knowledge of God. This knowledge can be obtained not only by casting one’s eyes … Continue reading Julian of Norwich
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
Here's a drawing I did to illustrate this Sunday's reading from Acts:
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