A Poem a Sunday

Holy Trinity - B
May 27, 2018

 I’m Just Saying…

“Here is the shadow of truth,

for only the shadow is true.”

‘A Way to Love God’ by Robert Penn Warren

Reciting a creed

Sunday after Sunday

is like rehearsing

the Myth of Sisyphus;

perpetually pushing

the theological rock

up the mountain

only to have it roll

back for another week.

Apostles’,

Nicene,

Athanasian,

propositions of assent

never calls to discipleship.

1500 years

we’ve had these litmus tests

while overlooking

complicity to evil.

‘Believe in the Virgin Birth,’

but ignore the rights of women.

‘Confess Jesus as God's only Son’

while God’s children go hungry.

Affirm the Trinity

while overlooking,

want, war, and poverty.

New creeds, please,

that call us to loving deeds

and to share a

communal commitment

to the teachings of Christ.

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