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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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. Much of the story is hard to recall, but certain details are deeply moving. I have never liked prisons. OK, that didn’t come out right. I have never been in prison, nor should I have any reason to be in prison. Just that when I have visited prisoners […]
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Dear Friends: Thanks to a generous gift from Ken and Jerusha Vogel to Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago I am pleased to announce our first ministerial intern in many years starting in September this year. Lara Fuchs is in her final year of seminary and is highly regarded for her worship arts skill and her […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. Throughout this month we have been exploring the theme of resistance. I have implored you to join together as a people of resistance in facing the struggles for justice in our world. And you have responded. Over thirty of us joined the Newtown Action Alliance several weeks ago […]
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Several weeks ago over thirty of us traveled to Newtown, CT to participate in the Newtown Action Alliance rally in front of the National Sport Shooting Foundation against gun violence. This event is held every year on eve of SHOT; the largest gun convention in Las Vegas. We arrived to find the roadside in front […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. I spent a quiet New Year’s eve at home, thankful, I think to not be drinking more than I should. As one friend reminded me after a New Year’s eve when I had most definitely been over served by the bartender, “you know what happens when a drunk […]
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Last month, three days before Christmas over a dozen of us stood in the pouring rain outside the Bridgeport Government Center to lend witness to an interfaith vigil and prayer service in support of our Muslim Brothers and Sisters along with about sixty other Jews, Christians and Buddhists. We had no scripted part, I offered […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. It is a haunting tale. The little match girl was sent out every day by her abusive father to sell matches on the street which the family made in the hovel of a home. If she did not return with all the matches sold and money in her […]
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We are in the midst of Advent in the Christian lectionary, Hanukkah in the Jewish calendar and the Yule time in the Pagan tradition. Once again a time of religious overlay which, like Easter and Passover, reminds us of a sacred time of the year. What all these holy days have in common is the […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. Leopold Stokowski, one of the most innovative and talented conductors of the 20th century, spoke with an Eastern European accent, claimed to be of Polish decent and is said to have learned to play the violin his grandfather purchased for him in Poland. His biographer, Michael Holyrod discovered […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. This past week William McEvoy shared this reading from my colleague Karan Anderson: “My friend Marcy and her boyfriend Brian recently ate dinner at a local Chinese restaurant. As they enjoyed a plate of lo mein, engrossed in conversation, a hand reached down and ushered away their platter […]