The paradoxical nature of faith

My own faith shares these qualities, for it both defines me as an individual and as a member of a larger Christian community. I was raised as a Baptist but have been for some time a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and have found a sense of homecoming in this church. My beliefs are in many ways that of the traditional Protestant, sanctified by the traditions of the church while at the same time deeply personal.

At the core of my beliefs is my faith in the Holy Trinity as an emblem of the Church as a whole. For me the Trinity - that God exists in three different forms, and that I can have a relationship with each of these, is both a statement of fact as well as a metaphor for the complexity of the relationship between the human and the divine. For me the concept of the Trinity encompasses first the God of the Old Testament, the God of the Hebrews. But it represents that God made known to the Christian in new ways, first and foremost in the teachings and body of Christ and then in the Spirit that inspired the founders of the Christian Church to create this new institution on earth that wo

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