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 CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Long before I developed claustrophobia and attendant anxiety, I went spelunking that is cave exploring. I was in my early 40s with a young family and we were on vacation in West Virginia which has some of the most […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I imagine that most of us didn’t expect our life to turn out the way it did. Mine didn’t. When I was teenager I thought I wanted to be an airline pilot, you know see the world, make a […]
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CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Roberta Bondi teaches church history at Candler Theological School at Emery University in Atlanta. In the midst of the mass shooting of Asian American spa workers in Atlanta, she speaks of what our perceived differences can mean in a time such as this. What we become […]
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CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I was raised on the kind and warm Jesus portrayed in Unitarian Sunday schools that loved and welcomed birds and little children. The Jesus I knew as a kid cared for living things taught us to care for our friends and performed some really neat tricks […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. For hundreds of years, our forebears, the Unitarians and Universalists who have been part of this country since its founding, devoted their lives to the creation of a religion dedicated to building a better world. Above all, they wanted […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. The Principles that guide our faith are not creeds. They are not faith statements that we must adhere to. But they are aspirations. When we covenant to value and promote such things as the inherent worth and dignity of […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. My first foray into the American Baptist church came as an invitation from a good friend of mine. I was 28, in the middle of a messy divorce and I was spending more nights than I should at the […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. You all know the story, don’t you? Or do you? On the sixth day God created man and woman; he created them, except it didn’t happen that way so fast did it. There are actually two stories of the […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I have been in the community building business for over three decades. Early on in my ministry I had spent some time with a few monks at an abbey where I had gone to retreat. The oldest abbot there […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon Like so many of you I spent most of Wednesday transfixed by the inauguration. There was such dignity to the affair, largely bereft of spectators, and yet somehow even more inclusive. Beginning with the Memorial President Biden and Vice President Harris led us in at the reflecting pool […]