The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM - ZOOM (check SOUNDINGS)
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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 […]
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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 […]