The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services at 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM
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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 […]
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Daily, it seems, we hear reports of how the economy is improving; the Dow Jones Industrials have crossed the twenty five thousand mark, earnings are up. Even the jobless picture seems to be improving; less people filing for unemployment this month than last. Economists tell us that a bullish stock market is a “leading economic […]
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Among the Kung of the Kalahari Desert, when a baby is born, the newborn is passed around the circle of women who attend the birth and each woman suckles the child for a moment, whether or not they are lactating, before the placenta is birthed, after which the baby is returned to her mother. As […]
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It was a rainy day in April many years ago. About one hundred people were crammed into a tent deep in the woods. They had come to grieve the loss of a young couple’s first child. Olivia Rose was her name. She lived exactly 4 days, 3 hours and six minutes, before dying of viral […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon “Carmel Point” by Robinson Jeffers The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses— How beautiful when we first beheld it, Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs; No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing, Or a few […]