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10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM

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May 2, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“The Way of Stories” – May 2, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Long before I developed claustrophobia and attendant anxiety, I went spelunking that is cave exploring. I was in my early 40s with a young family and we were on vacation in West Virginia which has some of the most […]

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April 25, 2021 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“We Become More” – April 25, 2021 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. I imagine that most of us didn’t expect our life to turn out the way it did. Mine didn’t. When I was teenager I thought I wanted to be an airline pilot, you know see the world, make a […]

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April 22, 2021 by Charles

Lost by David Wagoner

Stand Still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is HERE, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may […]

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December 1, 2020 by Charles

Love the gift of your life and do no harm by Mark Bellentini

Let the sky above me unroll like a scroll, and let me read upon it today’s text for my life: “You are alive, here and now. Love boldly and always tell the truth.” Let the wind arrange the naked branches of the maples and aspens and oaks into letters which proclaim this sacred text: “Your […]

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November 1, 2020 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“Everything Belongs” November 1, 2020 (video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. Some years ago, I preached at the Unitarian church in Santa Barbara, CA, a Spanish revivalist church right across from a beautiful park. As I was walking across the patio between services, I tripped. (Exclaiming Jesus Christ). I didn’t […]

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January 5, 2016 by Charles

Resistance by Rev. Peter Friedrichs

Press the tender flesh of your knowing Against the steel door of your fear. Stay there, breathing, as its icy skin draws out the heat of your racing heart. Feel its resistance to the yes of your hopes, the imminent expiration of your dreams. You could have avoided this pain. You could have stayed safely […]

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October 27, 2014 by Charles

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry

Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in […]

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October 27, 2014 by Charles

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the […]

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September 22, 2014 by Charles

Anthem by Leonard Cohen

The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. Ah the wars they will be fought again The holy dove She will be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free. […]

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September 14, 2014 by Charles

Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep A Gun In The House by Billy Collins

The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking. He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark that he barks every time they leave the house. They must switch him on on their way out. The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking. I close all the windows in the house and put on a Beethoven symphony full […]

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