The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
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 […]
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 […]
According to my calculations, we are finishing week 5 of the isolation/lock-down. At some point last week things began to feel different for me. What I had thought of as a temporary deviation was now a lifestyle change or a new normal. It almost feels like my former life has been hijacked by the virus. […]
One of the “benefits” of this Corona time is that I am able to catch up on some reading. One of the passages that I recently came across is from Friedrich Nietzsche: “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” That caused me to start thinking […]
FROM AGING TO SAGING … Reflections of an Elder in process! A number of weeks ago, I was serving as the Pastoral Care Chaplain at our candle boat after our Sunday service. A middle-aged septuagenarian congregant came forward to share a dilemma he was facing. He shared: “Over the last three years, I have lost […]
We are in the cycle of the year… when darkness is upon us and taking us into a time of waiting. As we move through this season both metaphorically and psychologically, there are many things about our current life that could depress us or leave us without direction. It is critical to stay focused on […]
As the church year begins, we thought we’d start with a new offering to our congregation and friends: a short message each week from one of our ministers that speaks to us as spiritual beings. Here is the first one, from me – Reverend John Someone told me the other day that she won’t let […]
