The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM - ZOOM (check SOUNDINGS)
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I spent much of my high school years at a private school in the Delaware River Valley in Pennsylvania. My entry into this world had been very difficult. As a shy and socially awkward teenager, I was even more […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It’s hard to imagine a year that compares to 2020 as the most difficult in our lives. For me, 1987 is a close second. Francis and I had just moved from a cold and forbidding life in upstate New […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. We elected Barack Obama on the sails of hope. We placed upon him the mantle of a savior. And then, as with all leaders, we realized that he was not a savior, but a human being dealing with a […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I wasn’t at all sure what I was doing there. It was cold and I was tired and hungry and sitting on this meditation mat in Zen retreat center in upstate New York. I was a new member of […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Sometime ago I shared with you how I was moved to suddenly stop the car in Yellowstone National Park and jump into the glacier lake at about the same time as my father was having a heart attack swimming […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Welcome to you all. Welcome back into our community of faith. Welcome back to the possibility of a new world. Welcome back to hope. This has been a torturous six months hasn’t it? The pandemic which was badly managed […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In Susan Monk Kid’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, the heroine, a girl named Lily, loses her mother and attempts to escape the brutality of her father. Lily is raised by Rosaleen, her proud and outspoken African-American nanny. […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Perhaps it’s a bit ironic that I want to talk about crossing a threshold when we are mostly sequestered in our homes, decidedly on just one side of the threshold. When I tell people I am the Senior Minister […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In the small East Texas Town of Slone, Travis Boyete, abducted, raped and murdered a popular cheerleader. He buried her body so deep no one would find it. He watched in amazement as police prosecuted and convicted Donte Drumm, […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It has been hard to see the possibility of a resurrection in the midst of this pandemic. Many of us ache for the chance to be freed this Easter, free to go to church, free to see family and […]