by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Matthew 13: 34-35; Luke 8: 4-15 Slanted and Enchanted: The Parable of the Sower When I was in sixth grade, I got baptized on a Sunday evening, and afterwards my grandparents gave me a Bible – this Bible. It was one of those red letter editions of the...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Luke 2: 25-38; Philippians 1: 3-11 Integrity Blues I began reading George Eliot’s classic novel Middlemarch this week. It’s set in an English village that’s undergoing convulsions as a result of the industrial revolution, and it tracks the...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Matthew 14: 22-27; I John 4: 16b-21 Faith Against Fear I’d like to begin this morning with a famous story about Jesus. It’s a story about fear, a story that I’ve been reflecting on over the past several weeks, as 2017 came to a close, as I thought about...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Luke 19: 41-42; Revelation 22: 1-5 We were pleased to welcome Shelly Altman to the pulpit this morning. Shelly is the co-chair of Jewish Voice for Peace, New Haven, and he traveled on our Tree of Life journey this year. It is a pleasure to have both Shelly and...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Isaiah 61: 10-62:3; Luke 2: 22-40 A Story of Christmas The SnowMama By Jeanette Winterson It is snowing. In the English language we do not know anything about the ‘it’ that is snowing. It might be God. Maybe. Maybe not. Anyway. It. Is. ...