The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
Dear Members and Friends, Rosh Hashanah begins this evening. As the Jewish New Year, it launches the Jewish High Holy Days that culminate with Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement. These ten days are a time for the Jewish faithful to practice teshuva, or turning toward wholeness by acknowledging where one has […]
Dear Members and Friends, I so enjoyed leading worship this past Sunday and sharing fellowship with you following the service. If you missed the service and would like to watch/hear the sermon, please click HERE. Or, you can find more sermons on our website, .uuwestport.org, under the “SERMONS & POETRY” tab. As your transitional minister, […]
Dear Members and Friends of UU Westport, We enter a season of transitions: getting back to school, re-creating routines, and, here at UU Westport, launching a new worship year. As many go back to school, it’s also a great time to go back to church—to gather again with your congregation. “Transition” refers to the process […]
I first heard of Appreciative Inquiry in Chicago in the late 1990s. I was dealing with some very thorny congregational issues as a young minister. In consulting with my mentor, I said “We have so many problems, I just don’t know where to start.” She looked at me and with a calm voice said “Don’t […]
This Sunday, February 26, we will feature some jazz selections at the morning service. One of those pieces is called “Break Not the Circle” with words by Fred Kaan (1929 – 2009). In the third verse Mr. Kaan says: “Join the movement of the love that frees, ‘till people of whatever race or nation will […]
Dear Friends, September 14 brought an unwelcome surprise when I was struck by a mild stroke. The days since have been focused on recovery and I feel fortunate that I can anticipate a full return. Currently I am in Burke Rehabilitation Hospital and they are thinking that I will be able to go home around […]
A while back someone gifted me with The New Yorker Book of Art Cartoons. I am looking at the one where a husband and wife are breathlessly rushing through the door of an art museum. They look at the guard and the husband says: “Which way to the Mona Lisa? We’re doubled-parked!” While it is […]
One day last week I came across a quotation that has stayed with me. “All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.” This was penned by Richard Rohr in a book called Adam’s Return. It got me thinking about the various options: hiding our pain; denying our pain; projecting our pain; wallowing […]
Oddly enough, sometimes our social media, although created with the aim of connecting people, can cause us to feel more isolated than ever. We know how people in the most remote areas of the world are suffering and yet we do not know what is happening to our next-door neighbor. But it is not just […]
One of the songs that the choir will sing for the Holiday Concert is “Touch Hands.” The music was written Minnesota composer Abbie Burt Betinis. She based the piece on a poem of W. H. H. Murray. It goes like this: Ah friends, dear friends, as years go on and heads get gray, how fast […]
