As a campus chaplain I have performed many, many weddings. I ve done the weddings of several of you in this congregation.
Love is central to our Christian faith.
It is, according to Scripture, the identifying mark of what it means to be Christian. This song we have just sung. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. Just in so far as we love, we share to that extent in the power of the divine and we will live forever as we love. And yet our religion, Christianity as well as all religions, often seem to divide, to create hatred rather than love.