Perhaps the most enigmatic inquiry of any Christian theology is that of the Trinity. This enigma has lead to so many struggles and fears, so many divisions and splinters in the Church, so much head spinning and hand-wringing, that many within Protestantism, particularly progressive Protestantism, have looked for ways to dispense with the whole pesky concept. Many in my own denomination have marginalized the inquiry altogether leading to the much dismayed, but somewhat too accurate to be said in full-throated jest, quip: "Unitarians Considering Christ" rather than "United Church of Christ." It's a joke, of course, and not a really good one at that. But if we're honest, don't many of us just want to put Trinity on the sideline and see if we can't run our playbook without it? Some will cite historical problems in the very construction of trinitarian theology, imperial and imperialist impulses in the origination of trinitarian controversies that lead to ...