by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Luke 14:1; 7-14a Is this Seat Taken? Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Texts: Psalm 8; Psalm 24: 1-6 Two Pathways Toward Wonder “Two things fill the mind with awe and wonder: the starry heavens above, and the moral law within.” So said Immanuel Kant in 1788, at the end of his book of ethics, The Critique of Practical Reason. Kant was...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Genesis 18:1-15, 21:5-6 I LOVE TO TELL THE STORY OF WHEN SARAH LAUGHED One of the many privileges of pastoral care is being able to sit with people in their last days whether in the hospital or at home. To be invited into this intimate threshold place is a gift that I...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
Genesis 1:1-31 & 2:1-3 Revelation 22:13 I Love to Tell the Story: In the Beginning, God… This summer we have embarked upon a series of sermons telling- and re-telling – the great stories of the Bible. Remembering the wisdom of the German Theologian,...
by Mario Baldessari | Sermons
This morning we welcomed to our pulpit The Rev. Catherine Zall, director of the New London Homeless Hospitality Center. Cathy was our beloved Associate Minister from 2002 to 2007. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luke 10:25-37 A...