The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM on ZOOM and in person
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The fact that our climate is changing is not debatable. The question is how fast and to what end? There are hundreds of possible outcomes, some better than others and all of them worse than the world we are living in now. When I talk to young people, the existential crisis of climate change is […]
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In my sermon on Sunday, I told the story about old Mother Earth who wove the fabric of life in brilliant colors while at the same time stirring the stew of life, being sure it did not burn. One day, with her garment of life almost done, she had to walk to the back of […]
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Earlier this summer we invited congregants to share their thoughts as part of a Tuesday email message or a Wednesday or Friday video message. Janet Luongo chose to share, this week: thank you, Janet! Carrie McEvoy’s creative sermon on Sunday August 8 stays on my mind. A longtime TUCW member, and Intern Minister at the […]
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On Earth Day this year, we were blessed with the reflections of Sr. Kathleen Deignan, an Eco-theologian from Iona College. She reviewed with us the fact that we are in the period of the sixth extinction of species on the earth. As we watch the daily news regarding the continuous break up of arctic ice […]
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As the church year draws to a close I find myself reflecting back on it. Nothing about this ‘season’ has been normal. I believe that we, as a spiritual community, have been changed as a result. While so much of our attention has been focused on the pandemic/health issues, many other things happened simultaneously. So […]
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Next Sunday is the official beginning of summer. Our worship service will be broadcast at 10:00 AM on ZOOM. The entire service has been pre-recorded. The following Sunday, June 27th at noon, we will be joining Unitarian Universalists across the country for the denomination-wide virtual worship service, which will be brought to us from the […]
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Three weeks ago, I took a Lyft to Stamford, caught an Amtrak into Moynihan Hall, and transferred to an overnight train to Chicago. I briefly saw my son, but my destination was Sheboygan, Wisconsin. For three months I will be “doing a unit” of Clinical Pastoral Education (“CPE”) as the student chaplain in a hospital. […]
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In the summer of 2008, I stood on the steps of the Los Angeles County Superior Court with members of my congregation to perform religious weddings to any gay couple who had come out with a valid marriage license, at no charge. The congregation was there with rainbow-colored cupcakes. For three Friday afternoons (the most […]
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s public murder by police. What has changed? A great deal actually. That event in the midst of the worst pandemic in a generation unleashed a righteous fury among many white people and other people of color. Finally, we woke up to the reality the black and brown […]
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Throughout the month of May we have been considering the spiritual theme of Story. Stories are essential to our identity as meaning-makers. Stories, poetry (a kind of storytelling) and the images they invoke ground us in a reality. We live the stories of our lives as a script with a beginning, middle and an end, […]