The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
Click here to listen to this sermon. This is the fourth of a four-part January sermon series. We started on New Year’s day with beginnings, as began a new year, reminded that life is a process of starting over, every day, every year, every graduation or completion of a task. The beginning of a new year […]
Click here to listen to this sermon. Last week we took a look at Harvey Cox’s new book, The Future of Faith in which he made a clear distinction between faith and belief. He divides the history of Christianity into three ages: the first he calls the age of faith, the first three hundred years, when […]
Click here to listen to this sermon. In his spiritual essay, The Over-Soul, Emerson says: “There is a difference between one and another hour of life, in their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more […]
Opening Words: Kalidasa, 4th century Hindu poet: Salutation to the dawn Look to this day, For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence. The bliss of growth, The glory of action, The splendor of beauty. For yesterday is but a dream, […]
One of the basic ingredients to the holiday season, especially Christmas and Hannukah, has to do with gift giving. In order for there to be gift giving, there must be gift purchasing or making…which requires decisions…and often leads to some anxiety. A certain amount of that ingredient – anxiety – is a necessary part of […]
Religion can be complicated, but it doesn’t have to be. The key to religion is simplicity. It’s not about beliefs, those constructs of the imagination which help us to pretend we know all the answers. It’s not about belonging to the right religion, or reciting the creeds…or affirmation…it’s not about memorizing the best poems or […]
You know the story – how Moses was born a Jew when the Israelites were in bondage in Egypt, and the Hebrew people were getting ‘too strong,’ the Pharaoh said, so he told the midwives to kill the male children when they were born; how his mother put him in a basket and floated it […]
Opening Words: When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent […]
Introduction: When I heard Michael Schuler, my colleague, minister of the congregation in Madison, Wisconsin, deliver a sermon at last summer’s General Assembly – the gathering of Unitarian Universalists from across the country – I thought: “I’d like the folks in Westport to hear this.” I hope to give you a good taste of the […]
Last week we talked about the religious discussion following 9/11 as presented in the thoughtful and provocative documentary on PBS’s Frontline which they called ‘Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero.’ Many of those who were quoted were clergy and were quite revealing…sort of looking in the mirror. The first comment was made by a rabbi […]
