The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
I first heard of Appreciative Inquiry in Chicago in the late 1990s. I was dealing with some very thorny congregational issues as a young minister. In consulting with my mentor, I said “We have so many problems, I just don’t know where to start.” She looked at me and with a calm voice said “Don’t […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon. CLICK HERE for audio of this sermon. CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. As we enter into this Advent season I am acutely aware that December can be a very dark time for some. Those of us in the so-called helping professions know that the […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon. CLICK HERE for audio of this sermon. CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. John Murray began his early career in the early 1700s as an Anglican priest in England. An avid reader, and critical thinker Murray was greatly influenced by his first wife who believed […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon. CLICK HERE for audio of this sermon. CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In the story Tico and the Golden Wings, the famed children’s author Leo Lonini tells of Tico, a bird born without wings. As is true of so many who are different, Tico […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I imagine that most of us didn’t expect our life to turn out the way it did. Mine didn’t. When I was teenager I thought I wanted to be an airline pilot, you know see the world, make a […]
Quick clarification: I will be preaching on “We Become More” not this weekend, but Sunday April 25. This Sunday April 18 we are all looking forward to hearing Rev. Jim’s full service entitled “Wake to the Story of the Earth….” “The Earth does not belong to man; Man belongs to the earth!” (Chief Seattle). There […]
CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Roberta Bondi teaches church history at Candler Theological School at Emery University in Atlanta. In the midst of the mass shooting of Asian American spa workers in Atlanta, she speaks of what our perceived differences can mean in a time such as this. What we become […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It’s hard to imagine a year that compares to 2020 as the most difficult in our lives. For me, 1987 is a close second. Francis and I had just moved from a cold and forbidding life in upstate New […]
Thanks to Stephen Polmar, who has been studying the Stoics, I cracked open my Epictetus, one of the great Greek philosophers, and I found this quote: “Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In Susan Monk Kid’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the heroine, a girl named Lily, loses her mother and attempts to escape the brutality of her father. Lily is raised by Rosaleen, her proud and outspoken African-American nanny. […]
