My thoughts yesterday on the Trinity as emphatically not an emblem for the nuclear family, drew a strong response in a facebook message from Joseph N Goh,a doctoral student in queer theory and queer theology. In his message, he drew my attention to his own thoughts on the Trinity, “A Brief, Queer Glimpse at God: Reflection for the Feast of the Trinity“. published at his blog, ”A Queer Eye for God’s World”, and also at his primary website, Joseph N Goh, with this inspiring conclusion:

Viewing through a queer prism, I see God as creativity, outreach and courage. The world that I see around me need not be clenched by helpless, forced conformings, but by elegant diversities. The richness of an evolving world reveals God to me, and I am pained by how this creativity is curtailed by heteronormative prescriptions. I see God in numerous efforts of outreach towards persons who are discriminated due to colour, class, economic status, education, appearance, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality and religion. I see multiple incarnations in which God appears again and again, and it allows me to recall the meals, the stories, the blood and the sweat of the Man of Jerusalem through whom the countenance of God broke through. In these efforts, I see myriad forms of courage, which are nothing less than divine displays. God is once again fanning the winds of upheaval, challenging the perceptions of those who claim exclusive rights to God. The collapsing and flattening of human persons into textureless, single-hued, undifferentiated, static identities are challenged by a God whom I now see as Creativity, Outreach and Courage, the God who was, who is, who is to come.

I have not yet had the time to explore further in his archives, but hope to do so when I can - especially what appears to be a valuable queer commentary on the liturgical year. Take a look.