The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services at 9AM in person & 11AM ZOOM & Facebook
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“The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it. Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience, and everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom. We have a language of truth growing in our heart that only […]
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There is a lot to be scared of right now. The pandemic is entering another wave, the President of the United States is inciting armed rebellion against state governments, women’s health is at risk with the likely appointment of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, black and brown bodies are being killed and, on top […]
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My colleague Rev. Cameron Trimble recently wrote a column about the Khasi people in Northeast India. The region is one of the wettest in the world. It is also home to around 9000 Unitarians mostly in villages in the remote hills of the region. The Khasi people having been living with the extreme rainfall for […]
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The well-known theologian, educator, author, minister and civil rights leader Howard Thurman had a lot to say on many subjects. He authored over a dozen books. Among other things, as an African-American minister, he was the founder of the first interracial interfaith congregation in the United States. He knew well that progress does not happen […]
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There is so much that feels wrong about our time: the pandemic, the recession, the lack of any functional governmental response, fires burning in the West, floods in the South and now the very real possibility that the Supreme Court will tilt strongly away from our values as Unitarian Universalists. The death of Ruth Bader […]
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My first writing of a Minister’s Message coincided with Rosh Hashanah, and though I am not Jewish, through proximity of friends and neighborhoods, I have found messages of the High Holy Days to be meaningful. The Birthday of the World reminds me of how enduring this planet is, how forgiving it can be, and that […]
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Author and futurist David Korten writes in his book, Change the Story, Change the Future: “Choice-making beings of many possibilities, we humans live by shared cultural stories. They are the lens through which we view reality. They shape what we most value as a society and the institutions by which we structure power……When we get […]
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Thanks to Stephen Polmar, who has been studying the Stoics, I cracked open my Epictetus, one of the great Greek philosophers, and I found this quote: “Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not […]
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We gather again as a congregation in a time of tremendous upheaval and challenge. The pandemic rages on, as pandemics do, and we are doing the best we can in living with this reality. This is the time in any crisis when we are at our lowest. Many social psychologists say that six months into […]
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Almost twenty years ago, our Associate Minister at the time, the Reverend Barbara Fast, started our Small Group Ministry program. The SGM has been a regular part of our congregational life for these many years, often led by faithful facilitators on topics meant to encourage deep spiritual conversations. Some of these groups have been together […]