Pastor's Corner The Interconnectedness of All Creation September is “Season of Creation” month at Trinity! Thinkers throughout history have asserted that everyone and everything in creation is connected. They ask us to imagine everyone and everything in creation are all in a big web together, so that if one person or thing disturbs the web in any way, the effects are felt in every other part of the web. The great naturalist, preservationist and environmentalist largely responsible for the...

Pastor's Corner A Repeating Story in the Bible: Human Oppression Followed by Divine Liberation The defining story in Judaism is the Exodus story, God’s liberation through Moses of the Israelites from their slavery to the Egyptian Empire. The defining story in Christianity is God sending Jesus the Messiah to be born in a Jewish outpost in the midst of the oppressive Roman Empire, and his good news proclamation of a new life-giving alternative to Rome and all other empires, which was a...

Pastor's Corner A Theological View of America’s 250th Birthday On July 4 of this year we celebrate America’s 250th birthday. On this occasion, I thought it might good to review the Biblical guidance on Christians’ proper relationship with their country and government. The two most important scriptures in attempting to answer this question are Romans 13 and Revelation 13. Romans 13 represents the apostle Paul’s positive view of the Roman government as “God’s servant for your good” (Romans...