The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM on ZOOM and in person
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On Earth Day this year, we were blessed with the reflections of Sr. Kathleen Deignan, an Eco-theologian from Iona College. She reviewed with us the fact that we are in the period of the sixth extinction of species on the earth. As we watch the daily news regarding the continuous break up of arctic ice […]
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As the church year draws to a close I find myself reflecting back on it. Nothing about this ‘season’ has been normal. I believe that we, as a spiritual community, have been changed as a result. While so much of our attention has been focused on the pandemic/health issues, many other things happened simultaneously. So […]
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Next Sunday is the official beginning of summer. Our worship service will be broadcast at 10:00 AM on ZOOM. The entire service has been pre-recorded. The following Sunday, June 27th at noon, we will be joining Unitarian Universalists across the country for the denomination-wide virtual worship service, which will be brought to us from the […]
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Three weeks ago, I took a Lyft to Stamford, caught an Amtrak into Moynihan Hall, and transferred to an overnight train to Chicago. I briefly saw my son, but my destination was Sheboygan, Wisconsin. For three months I will be “doing a unit” of Clinical Pastoral Education (“CPE”) as the student chaplain in a hospital. […]
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In the summer of 2008, I stood on the steps of the Los Angeles County Superior Court with members of my congregation to perform religious weddings to any gay couple who had come out with a valid marriage license, at no charge. The congregation was there with rainbow-colored cupcakes. For three Friday afternoons (the most […]
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s public murder by police. What has changed? A great deal actually. That event in the midst of the worst pandemic in a generation unleashed a righteous fury among many white people and other people of color. Finally, we woke up to the reality the black and brown […]
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Throughout the month of May we have been considering the spiritual theme of Story. Stories are essential to our identity as meaning-makers. Stories, poetry (a kind of storytelling) and the images they invoke ground us in a reality. We live the stories of our lives as a script with a beginning, middle and an end, […]
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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 the trees begin to unfold their foliage, I am drawn to the imagery of D.H. Lawrence in his poem The Enkindled Spring: This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the […]
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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 […]