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Today, June 15, is not only Father's Day. It is also Trinity Sunday. To me, the concept of the Trinity is incomprehensible. Which is why I am the perfect person to explain it to the rest of you.

This podcast started twenty years ago when one of my Muslim students asked me to explain it to her. She should have asked me to explain E=MC Square. Oh, I can do that: "Matter exploded equals energy and this led to the atomic bomb. Is that right?" Well, Einstein probably had a bit more to say about it than a struggling human being like me. The same is true with theology. If God is incomprehensible then all explanations of God are simply human efforts to put into words that which is not subject to words or even understanding.

If that last sentence upset you, then you may not want to listen to this podcast. If it intrigued you, then you are invited to spend the next half hour walking through a theological mine field with me. (And to go to my podcast on Feuerbach, who discussed this concept in great depth).

But as I often told my students, you are probably better off not discussing some of these topics at the dinner table. We are engaging in an intellectual process. You know you are not being asked to change what you believe. Just to understand some perspectives that may be new to you. Not everyone will be where you are. There is no reason to upset people with difficult ideas.

Are you ready? Seat belt on? Here we go.