The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
It was a rainy day in April many years ago. About one hundred people were crammed into a tent deep in the woods. They had come to grieve the loss of a young couple’s first child. Olivia Rose was her name. She lived exactly 4 days, 3 hours and six minutes, before dying of viral […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon As a boy growing up I used to imagine a world in which all the other people in it simply vanished. Their cars were still running, the power plants still humming and music still playing, all without another soul on the planet. All alone I dreamed that I […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. CLICK HERE for video of this sermon “We are more interested in getting heaven into people than people into heaven.” Our rather radical view of heaven being in people rather than vice versa is something that can really bother some people. After all, who is keeping score […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. Growing up in the woods of the New York’s Hudson Valley, I never spent much time thinking about “nature”. It was just “the woods”, a place to get away from my sometimes sad existence as a rather inward and awkward young boy. I spent countless hours walking through […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. In this last week, two more black men were shot to death by the police. What is happening here? Is our nation falling apart? I don’t think so. What is happening here is that we have the tools of social media that show what has always been happening […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. Spring lays her hands firmly on our shoulders. Never mind that there is much in our lives that is still very wrong, at least the weather is cooperating again. Such is the place of Easter in our lives. It’s not so much the religious significance of the holiday […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. Donald Curtis who many have called the founder of the American Unity Church, a liberal metaphysical religion with strong Christian leanings, was known throughout the world as a leader in the effort to bring the realms of science and religion closer together. I begin this morning not with […]
CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. My mother, God rest her soul, was one to extol the benefits of wash and wear clothing, sadly mostly polyesters. For women of her age, wrinkle guard fabrics and treatments released her from the toils of ironing all those shirts. She thought it a great liberation from the […]
