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 with sign up
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon In my youth, I used to feel soooooooo guilty whenever, on a rare opportunity, I would get to listen to or, dare I say, hum the hymn “Amazing Grace.” It made me feel like a bad Christian, like I was betraying god. Strange, you might say, or puzzling, […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. In the Spring of my religious life, it was time of wonder. When I was eight years old, winter of 1995, I had a dream. At the time, I was going to Sunday school in the Catholic Church. I had become an altar boy. I was an ideal […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon ~ CLICK HERE for video of this sermon About two years ago, give or take a month, I had an interview for a summer intensive program. It was for my clinical pastoral education, which is mandatory for Unitarian Universalist ministers and wonderfully counted towards six credits of my […]
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In 2016, right before summer I embarked on the Poor People’s Campaign’s Midwest Tour. It was planned for months, and took twelve days. On that first day drove from New York City to Toledo, Ohio. During that time we embarked on a journey that would take us across the rust belt. After Toledo we went […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon The story A Christmas Carol, to which there is the book by Charles Dickens and a multitude of adaptations done, focus on the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is in his office on Christmas Eve working, counting money. His nephew comes […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. There was a few movies I loved that show heaven. I loved one in particular What Dreams May Come, which I recommend the book as well. I don’t want to give spoilers, but it shows heaven as a place where people can be themselves. I watch What Dreams […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon In my childhood, I loved the movie An American Tail. It’s an animated movie, the main protagonist a young Jewish mouse celebrating Hanukah with his Mom, Dad, and sister. The dad tells the story of the American dream. Homes for all, food everywhere, and because they are all […]