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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Most of the snow is gone now, save the dirty piles left in parking lots. Still it was good to see it fall, light and full. It reminded us of winters past, but more importantly it reminded us that seasons are still marching on despite our many struggles and emerging realities, not the least of […]
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Well, here we are: hoping that we could have put 2021 behind us in the rear-view mirror. Hoping that 2022 was the year of no pandemic. Not yet! The Omicron variant is raging through our land and across the globe. We are not yet through this storm. With that in mind, and with the health […]
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Today is the shortest day of the year. But as someone also reminded me it has the longest night of the year as well. Darkness and the night have often symbolized fear and loneliness, as in St. John of the Cross’s famous work entitled The Dark Night of the Soul. However, if you read this […]
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It is no accident that our spiritual theme for December is Joy. Some may find such a theme cruel and uncaring given the relentless weight of this pandemic and the darkening days we find ourselves in. And yet, Joy is appropriate now even more so. As I will elaborate more upon this coming Sunday, Joy […]
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One of the songs that the choir will sing for the Holiday Concert is “Touch Hands.” The music was written Minnesota composer Abbie Burt Betinis. She based the piece on a poem of W. H. H. Murray. It goes like this: Ah friends, dear friends, as years go on and heads get gray, how fast […]
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We are deep amidst the holidays of light. Hanukkah has just ended. The Season of Advent is upon us. This Sunday will be our annual Holiday Concert. In several weeks we will come to the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. Followed by Christmas, with our pageant at 4:00 PM and two candlelit […]
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At our Thanksgiving table I recited The Gift, by Mary Oliver: Be still, my soul, and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and quick, has become slow. So, be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its […]
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In my sermon last Sunday I asked us to reconsider Thanksgiving beyond the genocide that the mythic feast between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. I really believe we can go beyond the myth to a greater reason to give thanks. To do so will require us to give thanks even for those who are […]
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As we head into the holiday season, I hear from many of you how unprepared you feel. A serious case of “no, no, no” instead of “ho, ho, ho.” As we emerge from the pandemic (and like all pandemics we aren’t done quite yet) our nerves are a little more on edge, and change feels […]
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The Soul Matters theme for the month of November is “Holding History.” Of course, one must ask: whose history? Over the course of the last year, I have observed that everything from the earth’s history, to cultural history, to personal history, has shifted. Let me be a bit more expansive. In very recent times I […]