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The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport

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March 22, 2023 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Dreaming On From Here – March 22, 2023

We had a fabulous day on Saturday as a number of us learned from one another about what strengths our congregation has to offer. The Appreciative Inquiry process is one in which we learn, grow and dream from our strengths. I was amazed at some of the dreams that came up; becoming a multicultural, multigenerational […]

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March 14, 2023 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Appreciative Inquiry – March 14, 2023

I first heard of Appreciative Inquiry in Chicago in the late 1990s. I was dealing with some very thorny congregational issues as a young minister. In consulting with my mentor, I said “We have so many problems, I just don’t know where to start.” She looked at me and with a calm voice said “Don’t […]

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March 7, 2023 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Finding Hope When Hope is Hard to Find – March 7, 2023

As we embark on the spiritual theme of vulnerability in this month of March, I want to take on the question of hope. Brené Brown, who has spent her entire career studying vulnerability, points out that hope is not an emotion that we have but is, rather, “a function of struggle which we develop… hope […]

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February 14, 2023 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Happy Valentine’s Day! – February 14, 2023

In her book The Weight of Ink, the author Rachel Kadish tells the fictionalized history of a young Jewish woman in the 1600s, Ester, who loses both of her parents in a fire in Amsterdam and is sent to work for a blind rabbi in London. Her job is to write down his thoughts and […]

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February 7, 2023 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Resilience – February 7, 2023

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 […]

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January 31, 2023 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Healing on the Path of Love – January 31, 2023

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 […]

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January 25, 2023 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Radical Welcome – January 26, 2023

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 […]

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January 19, 2023 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Towards Resilience – January 18, 2023

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 […]

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January 3, 2023 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

A Minister’s Message – Happy New Year! – January 3, 2023

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 […]

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December 24, 2022 by Rev. Dr. John T. Morehouse - Senior Minister

“A Precious New Beginning: A Christmas Eve Homily” – December 24, 2022 (audio, video and PDF available)

CLICK HERE for video of this sermon. CLICK HERE for audio of this sermon. CLICK HERE for a printable PDF of this sermon. In a Galilee far, far away in time and space, there were shepherds in the field “And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord […]

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