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 with sign up
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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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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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We are in the midst of Holy Week in the Christian Calendar. The week commemorates the journey Jesus took from his home in Galilee into Jerusalem during the festival of Passover. As so often happens, the Christian story of Easter runs parallel to the Jewish Festival of Passover. Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday which […]
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What a difference a year makes. A year ago we shut down our worship service to in-person attendance. The first service of the pandemic was broadcast on my IPhone over Facebook. It was something of a disaster. The picture from the phone was like looking into a mirror; the sanctuary appeared reversed. The signal kept […]
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çSome of you who attended our worship on February 21st saw the video that Nate put up for our story. In the video there was a short clip of Shirley Temple dressed as a southern belle dancing with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, an African American performer. The clip showed them dancing to a white audience. Such […]
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We live in volatile times. Never before in the geological history of this planet has CO2 in our atmosphere increased this rapidly. There have been times when the carbon released into the atmosphere was far greater than it is now, but it took millennia to get to that level. We are returning to an atmosphere […]
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When I was growing up in the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Croton, NY, I spent many restless hours in our “Sunday School” as we called it back then. I can remember learning about bible stories, famous Unitarian Universalists, and the holidays of other world religions. I never really learned what it meant to be a […]
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This last snowstorm was frightening and beautiful. I loved watching the snow twirl and dance with the wind, leaving snowdrifts and a blanket over everything. But I was also wary of Nature’s might: I prayed for the creatures human and otherwise that were trying to shelter from the storm. I thought of all those good […]
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There is so much that needs to be fixed right now, even with a hopeful new administration in Washington. The pandemic is still raging, vaccines seem to be slow to arrive, the economic impact of the virus has been devastating, racial injustice continues to live in our country, and there appears to be a lunatic […]