The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services at 10:00 AM - May 26 to September 8
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There is an old tale told of three of the workers building Notre Dame Cathedral. A passerby asks the first one what he was doing. He replied “I am putting in my time laying stones so that I might earn my daily bread”. The passerby walked farther down the wall and asked a second worker […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon Wilmington CA is the state’s most polluted neighborhood, downwind of the Port of Los Angeles, ships that burn what is known as bunker oil, trucks that burn diesel and five refineries releasing plumes of by product, often burned off. I lived […]
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When I was in my early years as a minister, I served a congregation that had met for 40 years in the basement of the local YMCA. They were fiercely lay led, what we call a Fellowship, and very suspicious of authority, including ministers. They had an ethos of fierce individualism, long a hall mark […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon “Mrs. Tipton the sick boy’s mother opened the door to Ling Tan, the new caregiver. “Oh dear” she said, “you don’t look very strong.” Ling knew that as a hospice worker she would have to lift the young man often. “Oh, very strong” she replied. She met Mike […]
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As UUs we often shy away from words that either reminds us of a religious past we would just as well like to forget or because the meanings of these words might be committing us to a belief system we don’t fully endorse. Words like God, holiness, faith, grace, prayer, salvation, atonement, sacrifice, theology and […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon In a little known part of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus is home from his wanderings and living the life of a king with his wife Penelope. Restless and bored, Odysseus decides to head back to the sea, to the life he knew […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon A woman named Hannah was walking through a marketplace in Jerusalem. Suddenly the forty year old woman of eight heard someone shouting ‘Terrorist! Arab!’ A young Arab man ran past her and was tackled by a man right at her feet. […]
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Since the merger of Unitarians and Universalists in 1961 we have struggled with articulating a common set of beliefs much less a theology that would help to ground us in a deeper meaning towards the good work we so often feel called to do. In large part, this is due to our denominational culture of […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. I like to say I found my faith at the birth of one of our children. It was a warm night in August of 1984 and Francis was giving birth to our first biological child, it was a dangerous delivery at home. It had been 18 hours of […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon It is so good to see you all here again. I want to thank our amazing worship associates for leading outstanding worship for us this long hot summer. How many of you made it to a summer service? Let’s give our WA’s a round of applause! One of […]