Trinity Reconcidered Thoughts on the First Readings – Joe Frankenfield Proverbs 8:22-31 When most of us learn about the Holy Trinity, our response is, Okay; if you say so. Many of us don’t move much past that. Numberless statements of popes, bishops and theologians not withstanding, the mathematics and internal makeup of God simply don’t [...]

God’s Chosen People (Like Everyone Else) Thoughts on the First Readings – Joe Frankenfield Acts 2:1-11 I was three when my younger brother was born. For three years I’d been my mother’s, grandmother’s and aunt’s special little boy. Then one day I walked into the bedroom where my mother slept beside my brother’s crib and [...]

Christians At Ease? Thoughts on the First Readings Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20 John wrote his letter to the Christians in Asia Minor (today’s Turkey) to assure them of Jesus’ rescue from the hardships they were enduring under Rome’s emperors. Some of these folks faced social and economic ostracism; others, situations much more lethal. Rome didn’t [...]

We Work: God Makes It Happen – Joe Frankenfield Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23 “When are you going to stop taking your sister’s toys?” the frustrated mother asked her four year old son. Mistaking the angry statement for a question, the little boy, chin aquiver and eyes ever so pathetic replied, “When I grow up.” There’s a [...]

A Person Of Faith Is A Person Of Hope Thoughts on the First Readings -  Joe Frankenfield Revelation 21: 1-5 I’m reading What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe. It contains an account of the 1828 presidential race between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. The similarity between the politics of those days and [...]