The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM in person and live online
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It is good to connect with you all virtually today. A lot happens in a week, much less 24 hours. Just two weeks ago we were together as a congregation although avoiding physical contact as much as possible. Now […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. As a teenager I was lovingly referred to by some of my friends as “Mr. Worry.” I worried about almost anything: the weather, politics, family fights, schools. I lived by the motto, “expect the worst and if the worst […]
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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. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Martin […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Like so many of us, I grew up with the literature of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Emerson’s essay on Self-Reliance moved me deeply in my late high school years, colluding as it did with my own […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. The line between sanity and madness is a lot closer than many of us would want to admit. More than half the people in this room deal with depression on a regular basis, including your minister standing before you. […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. It is a haunting tale I have told before. The little match girl was sent out every day by her abusive father to sell matches on the street which the family made in the hovel of a home. If […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Jan Richardson writes of this season: Prepare Strange how one word will so hollow you out. But this word has been in the wilderness for months. Years. This word is what remained after everything else was worn away by […]
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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. “You spend all your time waiting for that second chance, for a break that will make it O.K.. There’s always been some reason to not feel good enough and the memories just […]
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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. Most of here will sit around a table this weekend to be together and give thanks for the blessings of life. There is usually much ado around UU Thanksgiving tables about just […]
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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. I don’t watch a lot of television, but I have been recently enamored with the situation comedy “Parks and Recreation,” a biting satire about life in a small town Parks and Recreation […]