The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport
10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM
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Hello friends – I look forward to seeing many of you this coming Sunday September 11 at our annual Homecoming Service. Our service begins outdoors on the lawn with a calling of our leaders to come forward and carry the symbols of each ministry into the sanctuary. Our service will include special music and a […]
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Greetings, good friends: I, like so many of you, am outraged that the Supreme Court has rolled back reproductive rights and forced women, many poor and people of color, into forced motherhood. Forced motherhood is human enslavement. Plain and simple. This outrage may be the leading edge of other regressive measures designed to force Americans […]
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A while back someone gifted me with The New Yorker Book of Art Cartoons. I am looking at the one where a husband and wife are breathlessly rushing through the door of an art museum. They look at the guard and the husband says: “Which way to the Mona Lisa? We’re doubled-parked!” While it is […]
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The Japanese art of Kintsugi, illustrated here, highlights brokenness as a kind of natural beauty. Within the imperfections, there are blessings to be had. In a year of so much brokenness, it may seem impossible to imagine any blessings at all. But they are here. After each of the mass shootings in the last several […]
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It’s been such a hard Spring. Ukraine, Buffalo, the Supreme Court, Uvalde, TX. Lots of worry and lots of hardship. The way forward is not easy to see. Do we retreat into despair or try to find hope? Or both? The line between despair and hope, like the line between good and evil, depends a […]
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In a recent New York Times article author and philosophy professor Scott Hershovitz lays out the problem of why an all-powerful God would allow suffering to happen at all. He quotes his teenage son who says: “For real, God is pretend, and for pretend, God is real.” That is, we believe in God when it […]
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One day last week I came across a quotation that has stayed with me. “All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.” This was penned by Richard Rohr in a book called Adam’s Return. It got me thinking about the various options: hiding our pain; denying our pain; projecting our pain; wallowing […]
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A great deal of ink has been spent on discussing the nature of humanity. It is an important discussion, especially as it relates to creating theology. After all, if we think humanity is depraved and sinful, our understanding of a greater reality will reflect that, such as in the concept of original sin. If we […]
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One of the most important considerations in developing a theology is the context in which we search for greater meaning. Where we are — in terms of age, ethnicity, class and location — has everything to do with how we search for and find greater meaning. For most of us, our context is of privileged, […]
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Some of you have been fortunate to have taken the course “Building Your Own Theology” either with me or with our Minister Emeritus, Frank Hall. It’s a great course that helps each participant fashion a theology for themselves. It asks us to consider our history (religious and otherwise), our views on human nature, the place […]