The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
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There is so much coming at us right now: the receding pandemic, racial injustice, gender equity, political dysfunction and environmental catastrophe. Couple all this with our lively debate about a new organ, and you might think the world is coming apart… again. But it’s not. This is not the end of the world. This is […]
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A story crossed my desk several years ago about a nine year old boy in Memphis TN who lived in his house for over a month with his dead mother. She had died of cancer and the child, not knowing what to do, covered her up, went to school, shopped for food, cooked his meals […]
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It’s not that hard to imagine Spring making her arrival in a matter of weeks. Of course, mid-winter thaws always tease us into hope. But hope is a meaning-maker in our lives nonetheless. Thoreau said of these shoulders between seasons, “As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of […]
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This past Sunday I offered a line in my sermon that has hit home with some of you. I said, “Courage is our heaven and fear is our hell. Fear is the real Satan among us. It robs us of reason and strength and keeps us from knowing one another.” What did I mean by […]
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Last Sunday I closed our worship service with this short poem from Dawna Markova: I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my […]
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On March 31, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. preached what would be his last sermon to a congregation of thousands at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. His sermon, entitled “Remaining Awake Through the Great Revolution,” was billed as a reassurance for the predominately white congregation that his Poor People’s Campaign March on Washington would […]
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Most of the snow is gone now, save the dirty piles left in parking lots. Still it was good to see it fall, light and full. It reminded us of winters past, but more importantly it reminded us that seasons are still marching on despite our many struggles and emerging realities, not the least of […]
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Well, here we are: hoping that we could have put 2021 behind us in the rear-view mirror. Hoping that 2022 was the year of no pandemic. Not yet! The Omicron variant is raging through our land and across the globe. We are not yet through this storm. With that in mind, and with the health […]
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Today is the shortest day of the year. But as someone also reminded me it has the longest night of the year as well. Darkness and the night have often symbolized fear and loneliness, as in St. John of the Cross’s famous work entitled The Dark Night of the Soul. However, if you read this […]
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It is no accident that our spiritual theme for December is Joy. Some may find such a theme cruel and uncaring given the relentless weight of this pandemic and the darkening days we find ourselves in. And yet, Joy is appropriate now even more so. As I will elaborate more upon this coming Sunday, Joy […]