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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This coming Sunday, December 6th is the second Sunday of Advent. In the Christian calendar, Advent are the four Sundays preceding Christmas, which are rich in expectation and hope in the birth of Jesus. As the nights lengthen we would do well to embrace the symbols and rituals of gathering light that harken a new […]
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The more that we humans increase our awareness, the more that we need to make adjustments in the way we live and interact. At this time, I am thinking about Thanksgiving. The picture of the so-called first Thanksgiving, I am now aware, was a small pixel taken out of a very large picture. I don’t […]
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I had wondered if I had somehow missed the brilliant red of maple leaves, but finally found them this week, forming umbrellas of red and brilliant sunlight over littered ground. Creating red circles among lawns of green, contrasting elsewhere against yellow. As life’s restrictions have stretched through months, I am thankful for noticing changes I […]
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What a difference a week makes! Last week at this time we were anxiously awaiting the election results. Today we know that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won. It took a pandemic and the tremendous energy of millions of volunteers to get millions more to the polls and to mail in ballots. As the […]
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Today is a day unlike any other. The most important election in our lifetimes, perhaps in the history of these United (Divided?) States, is upon us. I take it as a good sign that almost 100 million people have already voted, and many more will vote today. If nothing else, this election, coupled as it […]
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“The point of experience is not to escape life but to live it. Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience, and everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom. We have a language of truth growing in our heart that only […]
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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 […]
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My colleague Rev. Cameron Trimble recently wrote a column about the Khasi people in Northeast India. The region is one of the wettest in the world. It is also home to around 9000 Unitarians mostly in villages in the remote hills of the region. The Khasi people having been living with the extreme rainfall for […]
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The well-known theologian, educator, author, minister and civil rights leader Howard Thurman had a lot to say on many subjects. He authored over a dozen books. Among other things, as an African-American minister, he was the founder of the first interracial interfaith congregation in the United States. He knew well that progress does not happen […]
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There is so much that feels wrong about our time: the pandemic, the recession, the lack of any functional governmental response, fires burning in the West, floods in the South and now the very real possibility that the Supreme Court will tilt strongly away from our values as Unitarian Universalists. The death of Ruth Bader […]