The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
Reading: I Am America, Frank Hall I am America — Take me away and you’ve removed a dream You’ve taken hope away — A vision and a promise. I am not the country. The country is carefully curled up in me. I am America, the dream that gave birth to a nation, To become a […]
I’m a religious liberal. That’s not a confession. It’s not an apology. They’ve tried to turn the word liberal inside out, to equate it with moral depravity—you know who they are. They are the mind managers; the language manipulators. Let’s do a little dissection—let’s look at the parts and see what makes us tick–those of […]
The attack on America came as a complete surprise-though in retrospect we might have expected it. The planes, flown by pilots prepared to commit suicide by flying their planes into their unsuspecting targets, came in two horrendously destructive waves hitting the first target at 7:53 a.m. and the second at 8:55. By 10 a.m. it […]
Opening Reading: e e cummings rain or hail sam done the best he kin till they digged his hole sam was a man stout as a bridge rugged as a bear slickern a weasel how be you (sun or snow) gone into what like all them kings you read about and on him sings a […]
Opening Words: “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. If we can conquer outer space we can conquer inner space, too.” These sentiments from Christopher Reeve explain the title of his second book, Nothing is Impossible. But more […]
This is the service that caps off the calendar year leading into the summer session. When we gather in September, the first Sunday after Labor Day, we look ahead to a new church year; we rededicate ourselves to the purposes, plans and hopes we share as a religious community. We hold up our sacred objects: […]
Opening Words: The Swan, Mary Oliver Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air – An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, […]
Opening Words: My Sanctuary, Meng Shu Ch’ing, Chinese, Ming Dynasty, 1368 – 1643 On the low wall of my garden There stands a tiny shrine, Half-hidden In the shadow of the trees. When I am weary of this sad world, And of man’s turmoil and strife, I steal off to my shrine among the trees. […]
The Latin word ‘Credo’ means ‘I believe.’ Many of us came to Unitarian Universalism because of what we don’t believe. Getting clear about what you don’t believe, or no longer believe, is part of the process of creating your own credo. My clearing-process started with the Apostles’ Creed which was pasted in the back of […]
Opening Words, from Song of the Open Road, Walt Whitman “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune, (Still here I carry my old delicious burdens, I carry them, […]
