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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Some of you have been fortunate to have taken the course “Building Your Own Theology” either with me or with our Minister Emeritus, Frank Hall. It’s a great course that helps each participant fashion a theology for themselves. It asks us to consider our history (religious and otherwise), our views on human nature, the place […]
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On June 20th we are planning to have the Summer Solstice service/concert, as we do each year. This time we are focusing on circles, seasons, and spirals. Recently, I was listening to a lecture and the lecturer was making a distinction between “paradox” and “parallax.” Paradox is a statement that is seemingly contradictory. Parallax is […]
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As Unitarians we are blessed with the rich reflections of our elder, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He invites us to experience our call to transcendental unity with nature: “We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every […]
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çSome of you who attended our worship on February 21st saw the video that Nate put up for our story. In the video there was a short clip of Shirley Temple dressed as a southern belle dancing with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, an African American performer. The clip showed them dancing to a white audience. Such […]
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I woke up to find the flakes falling again this morning, this time fresh snow upon layers already fallen. When it snowed here in November, my heart was too heavy to carry me outside. I remembered a childhood of snow in Pennsylvania, saw three winters in Boston with none, then I lived in Montreal for seven […]
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There is a lot to be scared of right now. The pandemic is entering another wave, the President of the United States is inciting armed rebellion against state governments, women’s health is at risk with the likely appointment of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, black and brown bodies are being killed and, on top […]
CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I keep a hammer in my car. Now, that’s not because I plan on stopping on my way to CVS or Trader Joe’s and building something. No. It’s for the same reason that I have a rope in my […]
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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. […]
There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau Let us agree for now that we will not say the breaking makes us stronger or that it is better to have this pain than to have done without this love. Let us promise we will not tell ourselves time will […]
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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 […]