Dear Friends, Akhenaton, king, or Pharoh, of Egypt from 1375 – 1358 B.C., initiated worship of the sun god, Aton.  He revised the Egyptian religion by instituting a form of monotheism, so he’s sometimes referred to as ‘the first Unitarian.’

Dear Friends; I feel myself moving through cycles of time: beginnings and endings. As summer draws to a close, I’m looking forward to another Homecoming Sunday – my 25th in Westport. A new season; another chance to see how well we can do in our effort to live out the affirmation; ‘love is the spirit…and […]

Dear Friends, We spent last week at Chautauqua where I offered the Sunday sermon, Spirituality for the Skeptic, at the Unitarian Fellowship. On Monday morning we had an open discussion in response to the sermon, which stimulated me to wish I could do a re-write.

Dear Friends, Last Saturday morning I was sitting on the patio with my second cup of coffee reading the Book Review section of the Times when Ed called and told me about Nick Parisot’s tragic death.  Ed was at the church and got the call from Nick’s family.  We met at the church twenty minutes […]

Dear Friends, Two weeks ago I was in Braunfels, Texas, to do a memorial service with Watts Wacker, in honor of his father. The service was held in the brand-spanking new Unitarian Universalist church. It was the first memorial service held there. Their very first Sunday service in the new building they helped construct was […]

Dear Friends; It was a sunny day, a little after seven o’clock in the morning. Mild, but rather cool for May. It was a good day for walking.  There was no one else at Compo Beach as I approached the boardwalk, so I couldn’t help notice the two men ahead of me as they walked […]

Dear Friends, Boston Public garden was ablaze with magnificent tulips arranged in patches of flaming red, outrageous yellow, and pretty pink. Last Friday at noon twenty-three members of this year’s Coming of Age Class, along with five chaperones, had a picnic lunch with those flowers.

Dear Friends, Lory and I bought our house thirteen years ago. It’s a colonial, built in 1929 – solid construction, to be sure. It’s in a very convenient location, just off the Post Road. We can, and do, walk across to Sherwood Diner, Walgreens, the cleaners, Starbucks, my optometrist, and several other places we frequent. […]

Dear Friends, We can take a lesson from Canada geese. They fly in a V formation. They figured out the aeordynamic benefits: each goose, flapping its wings, creates an upward lift for the goose that follows close behind.

Dear  Friends, Spring, like Sandburg’s fog, ‘comes in on little cat feet.’ It brings longer, warmer days. This year Easter sneaked in suddenly, less than 48 hours after the vernal equinox – it hasn’t been that early since 1913, and won’t be as early again until the year 2228.