Worship, doubt, and the Trinity — strange bedfellows, right? The odd one out is obviously doubt, isn’t it? Worship is one of the central activities of faith-filled people. The Trinity is an essential and distinguishing doctrine of the Christian faith. Clearly, the two go well together. But doubt? How did doubt creep in there, into this triumphant final scene after the resurrection when Jesus is saying goodbye to his disciples before ascending into heaven?

When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. — Matthew 28:17

This doubt mixed in there with worship and the Trinity offends our sensibilities because we want things to be sure and certain, black and white. We want to get it right. That is especially true for someone like me, as a firstborn child, but we all probably suffer …