St. Mark's New Canaan

The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost.  Are you feeling overwhelmed with anxiety? Father Justin Crisp explores a parable about fear and how anxiety can keep us from living lives of joy and gladness. 

The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost.  Are you in the need for some spiritual strength? Sometimes the parables of Jesus can feel like a punch that wakes us from our fatigue. 

Listen, Learn, and Love: How to Disagree Well in a Polarized World (Session 4 of 4).  In each of 4 sessions, Dr. Jewelle Bickel will teach you how to disagree better—not to win all your arguments, but to seek the truth in your disagreements, which will require you to think virtuously. 

All Saints' Day.  The Autumn Triduum, Allhallowtide, doesn't sound very cheerful. We're invited to linger in an uncomfortable place where we pray for the dead and reflect on the impermanence of life. However, embracing it may surprise you.

Listen, Learn, and Love: How to Disagree Well in a Polarized World (Session 3 of 4).  In each of 4 sessions, Dr. Jewelle Bickel will teach you how to disagree better—not to win all your arguments, but to seek the truth in your disagreements, which will require you to think virtuously. 

The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost.  Do you have a "promised land" that you believe your journey is bringing you toward? What is the ultimate promised land of our souls?

Listen, Learn, and Love: How to Disagree Well in a Polarized World (Session 2 of 4).  In each of 4 sessions, Dr. Jewelle Bickel will teach you how to disagree better—not to win all your arguments, but to seek the truth in your disagreements, which will require you to think virtuously. 

The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost.  What do our financial lives say about us? How much does our use of money bear the image of Christ?

The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost.  It's been a tough year for weddings and other social gatherings. Through Jesus' parable about a wedding banquet, Rev. Elizabeth Garnsey helps us understand the need to pause and notice how God is working in and around us.

Listen, Learn, and Love: How to Disagree Well in a Polarized World (Session 1 of 4).  In each of 4 sessions, Dr. Jewelle Bickel will teach you how to disagree better—not to win all your arguments, but to seek the truth in your disagreements, which will require you to think virtuously. 

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost.  Eyeglasses come with a variety of filters that alter how we see the world. What would it be like to own God Goggles with a Francis filter that help us see, feel, think, and know our world the way St. Francis did?

The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost.  No matter how the world changes, some things within the church never do. We're called to the table where our divisions are put aside and God's mercy finds us all.

The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost.  What if our priorities were more in line with God's? Rather than our goal in life being to outdo one another, it would be to become more loving.

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost.  2020 has caused us to react with a variety of feelings. Now that we're feeling them, what do we do?

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost.  This Labor Day sermon examines the transformation that happens in us when we take a break from our labors.

The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost.  What in your life feeds the ego and starves your soul? What things are tempting you away from the life God is calling you to?

The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost.  Have you ever considered how much power your words have? Through personal experiences and Biblical examples, this sermon explores how the names we give people can build them up, tear them down, and reveal their greatest potential.

The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost.  The Bible provides several accounts of prejudice and racist attitudes. What does "the Way" of following Christ tell us about facing such things?

The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost.  We often view faith as stepping out into the unknown. With everything 2020 has brought so far, maybe faith is more about facing the storms of life right where we are and knowing that Christ is with us.

The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost.  Jacob's journey in the book of Genesis is filled with wrestling, limping, and transformation; the very things many of us are experiencing right now.

The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost  When asked how we are, many of us feel like responding with sighs and groans. These responses actually contain a spirituality we all need.

The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost.  What do a new puppy and a field of wheat have in common? Stories about how, through patience and grace, even the worst parts of us have a chance to become good.

This Sixth Sunday after Pentecost.  How can the parable of a sower tossing seed all over help us embrace the random, wasteful, and utterly confusing nature of our lives?

The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost.  Over time, our country has worked toward a more perfect union with one another in which we recognize that all are created equal. To those who are weary from this long struggle, Jesus asks us to bind ourselves to him and lighten the burden.

The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost.  Amid the unrest in our country, the prophets of old can help us understand the righteous rage and spiritual warfare we're witnessing.