The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
Most of us think of resilience as the ability to overcome difficulties and persevere. That is true but resilience is more than that: Resilience is the ability to adapt to the change we are experiencing. Jeremy Lent in his book The Patterning Instinct puts it this way: “The resilience of a system determines whether it […]
We enter the third week of our “30 Days of Love” as part of the Side of Love campaign of the UUA. This week we focus on the power of healing in the service of love. Healing is hard even with time on our side. Healing requires at least the beginnings of forgiveness. All of […]
If you have been coming to worship these last several weeks you will have noticed that there is a new energy in our midst. With the new year have come people who have found us and our new way of doing religion, creating a place where creativity and spirituality meet. We welcome all who find […]
We begin this New Year with hope in our hearts and worry on our brows. There is much to fear. Regardless of circumstances, all of us are struggling with some part of our lives. If your personal world is not in turmoil, our outer world most surely is. We are embarking on a new course […]
Happy New Year! Welcome to a new year of possibilities and transformation. As I was pondering this new year, I found myself coming back time and again to the ideal of appreciation. Too often we make resolutions focused on what we want to have or be or do differently in the coming year. I think […]
We will spend Christmas evening at my daughter’s house in the foothills of the Smokey Mountains. She lives on a farm at the end of a small valley, a hollow or “holler” as the locals call them. All around the farm on verdant hills are sheep. As I have been anticipating this trip, I have […]
Dear Friends, As we enter yet another season of expectation, I wanted to touch briefly on why these holidays might matter to us as Unitarian Universalists. It is often said that what makes us unique in the religious world is that we place the right and responsibility of what we believe in the hands of […]
Dear Friends, Today is Giving Tuesday. If you are like me, you are getting all kinds of appeals from non-profits to support their important work. TUCW joins the list with one exception: our mission is rooted in your spiritual life, a life of meaning and hope. From now until the end of the year, we […]
Dear Friends, On Sunday I recommended the practice of naming one thing in your life you give thanks for and one thing you want to change in the next year. There was a lively discussion in the sanctuary as people paired off to share their ideas. When I asked for some examples of what they […]
Dear Friends: Thanksgiving can be a complicated holiday. As I will explore in the sermon this Sunday, the myth of “The First Thanksgiving” is largely untrue and deeply racist towards indigenous people. In some circles, including my own family, Thanksgiving is not a celebration but a “Day of Mourning” for American Indian nations decimated by […]