Mark Belletini

Mark Belletini is completing his thirty-seventh and final year in parish ministry. He has served at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus, Ohio, for the past seventeen. He previously served two congregations in California, and was chair of the commission that produced the Unitarian Universalist Association hymnbook Singing the Living Tradition. He is also the author of Sonata for Voice and Silence (Skinner House Books).

From Mark Belletini

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During the AIDS era, the saving presence of art in my life enabled me both to grieve full time and to serve as a minister full time.

Feature | By Mark Belletini | June 1, 2020 | From UU World

In 22 simple yet profound reflections, seasoned minister Mark Belletini explores the many and varied forms of grief.

Book | By Mark Belletini | From Skinner House Books

The 2008 inSpirit title. The inSpirit Series was previously known as the Meditation Manual Series.

Book | By Mark Belletini | From Skinner House Books

Ah, it’s true. When our ancestors spoke of heaven, they were speaking of this moment. When they went on about nirvana they imagined a time like this. When they sang of paradise, it was this morning they imagined....

Poetry | By Mark Belletini | June 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Barukh atah, Emeth! Blest are you, o Truth. Like the fabled Moses, I too can never claim to have seen you “face to face.” Too often, I’ve hung my own face on you and pretended that I know something I do not. Indeed, my most honest heart confesses that at most, I have only caught the briefest...

Poetry | By Mark Belletini | April 27, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Let my body remember. Let my hands and feet remember. Let my breath remember those who have come before me, those who have come before us. Didn’t Muhammad wait quietly in his cave? And didn’t Jesus sigh silently by the blue lake? And Guan Yin, didn’t she sit in silence thinking about what to...

Poetry | By Mark Belletini | April 26, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

I am part of you, O Truth Unfolding. I am part of you. I am part of a cosmos. I cannot see either its edge or its end. How amazing! I am part of a galaxy of a million, billion stars. They say it’s a pinwheel. How wonderful! I am part of a system of planets that swing around a small parent star.

Poetry | By Mark Belletini | April 23, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

The earth. One planet. Round, global, so that when you trace its shape with your finger, you end up where you started. It's one. It's whole. All the dotted lines we draw on our maps of this globe are just that, dotted lines. They smear easily. Oceans can be crossed. Even the desert can be crossed.

Poetry | By Mark Belletini | March 17, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

This is our earth. It falls through heaven like a pearl in a glass of plum wine. There are no other earths that I know of. There are no other skies that we have mapped. This is our earth. The Oneness who gave birth to it remains nameless. There was no midwife then to bring us word of the birth-cry.

Poetry | By Mark Belletini | March 17, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Grief has often worn me out, while restoring me to myself at the same time.

By Mark Belletini | March 1, 2015 | From UU World

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