A Sermon on Love and the Ethiopian Eunuch

This is the transcript from a sermon preached at St. Mark’s United Methodist Church on April 28th.

Herbert Boeckl, Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch, Angel’s Chapel, Seckau Abbey, Styria, Austria, 1952–60.

I remember one of the most difficult things about my first job out of college was the realization that life doesn’t come with grades. After 16 years of being consistently graded and knowing how I was doing, what I was getting right, and what I was getting wrong, it just stopped. I no longer knew…