The Unitarian Church in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
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FROM AGING TO SAGING … Reflections of an Elder in process! A number of weeks ago, I was serving as the Pastoral Care Chaplain at our candle boat after our Sunday service. A middle-aged septuagenarian congregant came forward to share a dilemma he was facing. He shared: “Over the last three years, I have lost […]
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Should We Always Take the Risk? This question was on the long list of questions the ministers were asked in November and I think this is a good time to tackle an answer. Any decision to take a risk depends on what is at stake. Generally, I live by the Yogi Berra wisdom that “if […]
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How do we make sense of Suffering? The Buddha was right, all of us suffer, although not all life is suffering. Progressive faiths such as ours haven’t done a very good job reconciling suffering with our sunny view of life. As the poet Christian Wiman puts it: “Suffering is simply something to avoid thinking about […]
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Why are humans here on this earth? In the midst of all of our political dysfunction, I have been considering the larger picture of why we are here on this planet at all. Given Earth’s natural tendency to extinguish most forms of life every eon or so, as a species we should be worried. Our […]
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Hello my dear ones, As we contemplate what it means to be a people of Integrity, I am drawn to one of this month’s Soul Matters spiritual exercises that asks us to “explore the connection between integrity and memory.” Instead of asking us to remember a specific value or life lesson, it asks us to […]
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One of the questions asked of the ministers in December was the classic “What is the meaning of life?” The question has been caricatured as sophomoric, perhaps even rhetorical. I have heard many answers from James Taylor’s “The meaning of life is to enjoy the passage of time” to the Dali Lama’s “Our prime purpose […]
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Happy New Year, friends – At The Unitarian Church in Westport, we are first and foremost a religious community. We need one another to grow in our spirituality, since religion is best practiced in community. Let’s always be about building deeper relationships with each other, and consequently, a stronger community. In our “Stations” service on […]
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Several years ago Carl Seaburg collected readings, poems and reflections about this holiday season from countless people. He then edited them and published them in a volume called Celebrating Christmas. It is a rich resource. One of those items is by Edward Erickson and, in part, goes: “We stand with eyes toward the east, awaiting […]
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The day has finally arrived. The expectation, the waiting, the exhaustion, the joy of this day is here. I wish you and yours only the very best this Christmas Day. After the pageant is done, after the Christmas Eve candles are extinguished, after the presents are unwrapped, after the meal has been served, after the […]
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Through the Advent Door With every step you take, this blessing rises up to meet you. It has been waiting long ages for you. Look close and you can see the layers of it, how it has been fashioned by those who walked this road before you, how it has been created of nothing but […]