The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
CLICK HERE to contact the Ministerial Search Committee CLICK HERE for the Ministerial Search Timeline. Jim Cooper I have been a member since 1997. I have served in RE since joining, and have been a Youth Group advisor since 1998. I have also served as an usher, and on RE Youth Circle committees. I am also a […]
CLICK HERE to meet Your Ministerial Search Committee. CLICK HERE to contact the Ministerial Search Committee CLICK HERE for the Ministerial Search Timeline. CLICK HERE for the Ministerial Packet. Your ministerial search committee is happy to report that we’ve received applications from 19 potential ministers. We’ve been busy reading their materials, listening to their sermons […]
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in […]
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the […]
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The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. Ah the wars they will be fought again The holy dove She will be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free. […]
The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking. He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark that he barks every time they leave the house. They must switch him on on their way out. The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking. I close all the windows in the house and put on a Beethoven symphony full […]
Human renewal comes through the shadow chains of the past By hard work. We drag those chains for days or decades, broken and beaten and often without knowledge about them. Renewal comes as the laughter after grief In the surprise of understanding. It is neither the naiveté of the child Nor the brazen veneer we […]
He needs you That’s all there is to it Without you he’s left hanging Goes up in Dachau’s smoke Is sugar and spice in a baker’s hands Gets revalued in the next stock market crash He’s consumed and blown away Used up Without you Help him That’s what faith is He can’t bring it about […]
Bruce will discuss how in our efforts to build beloved community, we often forget love, or seem afraid of it and misunderstand what it is and how it can be used. He will quote Dr. Martin Luther King to show that “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. […]
