Trinity Sunday, Pride Sunday

Today, some of us will be observing the festival Sunday that celebrates the mysteries of the Trinity:  3 gods in one.  Some of us will celebrate Pride Sunday.  People like me will think about the juxtapositions of these celebrations.

Many of us have brains that prefer neat binaries:  gay or straight, male or female, on and on I could go.  Both Trinity Sunday and Pride events look to burst these binary patterns.  Just as God contains multitudes, so does every human life.

These days, my brain often returns to the theology of Octavia Butler, as expressed in The Parable of the Sower.  Wouldn't it be great to teach/take a seminary class on this book and her larger writing?

Early in the book, we get the theology that undergirds the book:

"All that you touch

You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change."

While the protagonist of the book develops this theology to the Christianity of her preacher father, the theology has much to offer all of us as we struggle to understand both God and humanity.