The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services at 9AM in person & 11AM ZOOM & Facebook
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 […]
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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 for video of this sermon At one time in my life, long before I had the notion to enter the ministry I found myself attending a Buddhist Sangha. A Sangha is the name of an intentional Buddhist Community – Buddhists say intentional to separate the community from the Mahayana or the Great Community […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon My mother died young, quite suddenly, at the age of 73. My father who loved her very much was quite lost. He had come to live near our home in Maryland, a ramshackle little house that we were all in the midst of renovating. I would check on […]
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CLICK HERE to listen to this sermon. There was a few movies I loved that show heaven. I loved one in particular What Dreams May Come, which I recommend the book as well. I don’t want to give spoilers, but it shows heaven as a place where people can be themselves. I watch What Dreams […]
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CLICK HERE for video of this sermon Welcome home ya’ all. Welcome home to our congregation at a time in our world where we aren’t so sure if we even want to be home. Leave aside the fear of our current state of the world, and be reminded of a moment of all those who […]
On Sunday, May 3, 2015, our congregation voted to call Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse to be our new Senior Minister. This photo taken just after the vote shows him (third from left wearing red tie) with his wife Francis and the search committee. Rev. Morehouse will begin his work as our Senior Minister in […]