The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM on ZOOM and in person
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Next Sunday is the official beginning of summer. Our worship service will be broadcast at 10:00 AM on ZOOM. The entire service has been pre-recorded. The following Sunday, June 27th at noon, we will be joining Unitarian Universalists across the country for the denomination-wide virtual worship service, which will be brought to us from the […]
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In the summer of 2008, I stood on the steps of the Los Angeles County Superior Court with members of my congregation to perform religious weddings to any gay couple who had come out with a valid marriage license, at no charge. The congregation was there with rainbow-colored cupcakes. For three Friday afternoons (the most […]
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s public murder by police. What has changed? A great deal actually. That event in the midst of the worst pandemic in a generation unleashed a righteous fury among many white people and other people of color. Finally, we woke up to the reality the black and brown […]
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Throughout the month of May we have been considering the spiritual theme of Story. Stories are essential to our identity as meaning-makers. Stories, poetry (a kind of storytelling) and the images they invoke ground us in a reality. We live the stories of our lives as a script with a beginning, middle and an end, […]
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As the trees begin to unfold their foliage, I am drawn to the imagery of D.H. Lawrence in his poem The Enkindled Spring: This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Long before I developed claustrophobia and attendant anxiety, I went spelunking that is cave exploring. I was in my early 40s with a young family and we were on vacation in West Virginia which has some of the most […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Some years ago, I knew an African American woman who had moved into a very white neighborhood. She had just lost her husband and son in a traffic accident and, as a single Mom, was doing her best to raise her other son. Her new home was to be a place of hope and renewal. […]
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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 […]