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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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 […]
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As a boy growing up I used to imagine a world in which all the other people in it simply vanished. Their cars were still running, the power plants still humming and music still playing, all without another soul on the planet. All alone I dreamed that I would have whatever I needed, food before […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon At age 30 he had a vision. It was time to leave home, to wander in the wilderness in search of answers to life’s greatest mystery. Why are we here? Is there a God? Why must life end? For many years he wandered trying different spiritual practices until […]