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This is your introduction to the statement most Christian philosophers start with, when they try to construct a self-consistent and plausible way of interpreting the claim that God is three equally divine “persons”. Of uncertain origin, through the middle ages, it rose to prominence in the Roman Catholic, and then in other catholic traditions. It’s credited to this gent here, Athanasius (d. 373), but can’t be by him. I neglected to mention that the creed seems to echo language used in several places in the late writings of Augustine (d. 430) Many thanks to my friend Caroline Roberts for reading the creed for us, and to her husband, the multi-talented Bob Roberts for recording her. Check out Bob’s website (also here) if you have any books you need expertly and lovingly rebound. Thanks to their generosity, you’ll be hearing Caroline’s beautiful voice again in some future creed episodes! Resources: J.N.D. Kelly’s classic monograph on the Quicunque. It was his translation from the Latin we used in this episode. And the quote re: laughter is from Keith Ward’s God: A Guide to the Perplexed, which asserts what I call a one-self Trinity theory. I should also thank this awesome web-based service: auphonic. This helps me to easily tweak sound quality and distribute through so many venues. Tip: if you have a very rough audio recording of a public lecture or talk, upload it to them and use all their standard processing – it’ll come out much more listenable!

After a lot of work, and help from many people, I’m ready to launch the trinities podcast. As I start, I have completed all or parts of about eight episodes, with no shortage of ideas for more episodes. I plan to release an episode each Monday, at least until I need a break. I’m not looking back. This first episode is just about me and about my ideas for the podcast. I promise that upcoming episodes will be more interesting! In this episode, I failed to mention another kind of content: debates. I have some episodes relating to those ready to go. Stay tuned. As to distribution, there is something for everyone. (Stereotype alert!) For computer geeks: paste in this RSS feed to your podcast program. For those in a higher tax bracket than me: itunes. For those younger than me: tumblr. For those my age and older: a facebook group. For those hipper than me: soundcloud. For people who like videos of babies, dumb people hurting themselves, and cats: youtube. Please pick your favorite from the above and subscribe, like, follow, etc., to help get the word out. Finally, you can just listen or download here at trinities: just click the play triangle below. Each episode will be released with a blog post, in many cases containing relevant links. Thanks for listening!