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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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 […]
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Quick clarification: I will be preaching on “We Become More” not this weekend, but Sunday April 25. This Sunday April 18 we are all looking forward to hearing Rev. Jim’s full service entitled “Wake to the Story of the Earth….” “The Earth does not belong to man; Man belongs to the earth!” (Chief Seattle). There […]
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Some years ago, I knew an African American woman who had moved into a very white neighborhood. She had just lost her husband and son in a traffic accident and, as a single Mom, was doing her best to raise her other son. Her new home was to be a place of hope and renewal. […]
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We are in the midst of Holy Week in the Christian Calendar. The week commemorates the journey Jesus took from his home in Galilee into Jerusalem during the festival of Passover. As so often happens, the Christian story of Easter runs parallel to the Jewish Festival of Passover. Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday which […]
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Last Saturday was the Spring Equinox, and again I went to the beach at dawn, an experience utterly different from the November morning when I was last there, under overcast skies and buried in apprehensive news on the radio. My boots marked my pace and my eyes looked ahead to avoid crushing anything precious, but […]
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What a difference a year makes. A year ago we shut down our worship service to in-person attendance. The first service of the pandemic was broadcast on my IPhone over Facebook. It was something of a disaster. The picture from the phone was like looking into a mirror; the sanctuary appeared reversed. The signal kept […]
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On Sunday, March 21, we are scheduled to have our annual Spring Concert/Service. This year’s theme is called, “The Will to Go On” or, in a word, endurance. One of the songs which the Children’s Choir will offer is called “Storm or Rain?” What a peculiar title. What’s this about? The song is based on […]
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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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We live in volatile times. Never before in the geological history of this planet has CO2 in our atmosphere increased this rapidly. There have been times when the carbon released into the atmosphere was far greater than it is now, but it took millennia to get to that level. We are returning to an atmosphere […]