The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services at 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It wasn’t so long ago that I was sitting at the breakfast table with my five-year-old grandson, totally engrossed in my phone, switching back from my email, to the news, to Facebook. […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. At age 15 I was a troubled youth. Hair down to my shoulders, I liked to hang with my best friend and smoke pot and play pranks on passing motorists. My grades […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. My journey towards inclusion has not been a righteous one. Along the path of these thirty years in ministry I have had to overcome deep prejudice. And even today, I am far […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Nadia Bolz-Weber is not your typical Lutheran Pastor. After graduating from Seminary, she started a church in her living room, The House for Sinners and Saints. Like all new adventures this one started off with big hopes and an […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. A story: Long, long ago, the Queen of an ancient land was old and dying. She loved children but had none of her own. So the Queen decided to choose one of […]
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CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. “In 1994 the New Canaan CT School District hired Bruce Gluck, a classically trained chef (to head) the kitchens of the New Canaan public schools who, for twenty years, served farm-to-table fare before such a label existed. … His philosophy was “nature provides”—meaning food should be […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon Wilmington CA is the state’s most polluted neighborhood, downwind of the Port of Los Angeles, ships that burn what is known as bunker oil, trucks that burn diesel and five refineries releasing plumes of by product, often burned off. I lived […]
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When I was in my early years as a minister, I served a congregation that had met for 40 years in the basement of the local YMCA. They were fiercely lay led, what we call a Fellowship, and very suspicious of authority, including ministers. They had an ethos of fierce individualism, long a hall mark […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon “Mrs. Tipton the sick boy’s mother opened the door to Ling Tan, the new caregiver. “Oh dear” she said, “you don’t look very strong.” Ling knew that as a hospice worker she would have to lift the young man often. “Oh, very strong” she replied. She met Mike […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon In a little known part of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus is home from his wanderings and living the life of a king with his wife Penelope. Restless and bored, Odysseus decides to head back to the sea, to the life he knew […]