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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This coming Sunday I will be speaking about “The Wider Self.” What I have come to believe is that we are so much more complicated than any one theory about human nature. We “contain multitudes” as Walt Whitman observed, and within those multitudes is the very essence of what makes any of us a person. […]
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I have been so impressed of late with how we find the families we need even if they are not the families we are born into. This is especially true for those who identify outside our gender binary categories. Some among us have been largely ostracized for being LGBTQ and have had to create family […]
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We are in the midst of a Great Turning. We didn’t call it the Protestant Reformation until many centuries later. We are part of the next great reformation. Even though we don’t see evidence of positive change all around us, the change is happening. How do you see change around you? I would like to […]
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As the pandemic grinds on we are slowly finding our way to a new world. Masks will be with us for a long time, and we need to accept that the virus is part of us and our society. Perhaps it is even calling on us to re-examine our priorities. One of those priorities has […]
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The fact that our climate is changing is not debatable. The question is how fast and to what end? There are hundreds of possible outcomes, some better than others and all of them worse than the world we are living in now. When I talk to young people, the existential crisis of climate change is […]
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In my sermon on Sunday, I told the story about old Mother Earth who wove the fabric of life in brilliant colors while at the same time stirring the stew of life, being sure it did not burn. One day, with her garment of life almost done, she had to walk to the back of […]
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Earlier this summer we invited congregants to share their thoughts as part of a Tuesday email message or a Wednesday or Friday video message. Janet Luongo chose to share, this week: thank you, Janet! Carrie McEvoy’s creative sermon on Sunday August 8 stays on my mind. A longtime TUCW member, and Intern Minister at the […]
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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 […]