The Eunich (Yr B Easter 5) by Amma Susan
If one does not buy into a theology of sinful at birth (or earlier depending on your pro-life/pro-choice views),
then why gather as a community of faith for baptism, as we will on May 23rd, Pentecost, if not for cleansing of sin? We can take a hint from the pages of early Christianity focused on the life-saving, life-renewing, life-giving Spirit of God.
Today’s episode transpires where one would least expect it, but even more so, it involves a least-likely candidate –
an unnamed, titled man of the highest rank serving the Queen of Ethiopia, a member within the court circle, but deemed outside the faith circle, in traditional, religious thinking. But then again, that ‘epithet’ was applied to Jesus as well!