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Gethsemane and the Trinity

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Conflict is stranger than fiction;
Love is stronger than faction;
God is no stranger to conflict.

God is stranger than we know,
stronger than we feel,
weaker than we think,
wider than we imagine.

The cup of Gethsemane
is the cup of the Trinity.

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Graham Kings, in his retirement in Cambridge, is honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Ely and research associate at the the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, which he founded in 1995. He has served as Mission Theologian in the Anglican Communion; Bishop of Sherborne; and vicar of St. Mary’s Church, Islington, London, where he co-founded Fulcrum.

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