When I was a graduate student, the hot topic in Condensed Matter Physics was the idea of Phonons. A phonon is a way of looking at vibrations in the lattice of crystal (or anything close to that) and treating the vibrations as if they were a particle, not a wave. We can do that mathematically pretty easily. The question though is whether doing that leads you into any new useful insights. It turns out for that branch of Physics that it does indeed – and that’s why people were so excited about it.

Changing where you put your focus when you’re trying to understand something complicated can help you grasp ideas that are otherwise nearly impossible to conceive. Perhaps we can do that when we’re thinking about the meaning of the Trinity. In this week’s sermon I talk about what I believe is a different way of looking at the question, focusing not on the noun of Trinity but rather on the verb form of the idea.

You can find the sermon posted on Vimeo here.