The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Perhaps it’s a bit ironic that I want to talk about crossing a threshold when we are mostly sequestered in our homes, decidedly on just one side of the threshold. When I tell people I am the Senior Minister […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In the small East Texas Town of Slone, Travis Boyete, abducted, raped and murdered a popular cheerleader. He buried her body so deep no one would find it. He watched in amazement as police prosecuted and convicted Donte Drumm, […]
As the church year begins, we thought we’d start with a new offering to our congregation and friends: a short message each week from one of our ministers that speaks to us as spiritual beings. Here is the first one, from me – Reverend John Someone told me the other day that she won’t let […]
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 […]
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 […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon 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 […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon “We are more interested in getting heaven into people than people into heaven.” Our rather radical view of heaven being in people rather than vice versa is something that can really bother some people. After all, who is keeping score […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. Growing up in the woods of the New York’s Hudson Valley, I never spent much time thinking about “nature”. It was just “the woods”, a place to get away from my sometimes sad existence as a rather inward and awkward young boy. I spent countless hours walking through […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. In this last week, two more black men were shot to death by the police. What is happening here? Is our nation falling apart? I don’t think so. What is happening here is that we have the tools of social media that show what has always been happening […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. Spring lays her hands firmly on our shoulders. Never mind that there is much in our lives that is still very wrong, at least the weather is cooperating again. Such is the place of Easter in our lives. It’s not so much the religious significance of the holiday […]
