News & Announcements

“Siding With Love” Our Church Podcast

"Siding With Love" is Gloucester Unitarian Universalist’s monthly podcast, co-hosted by the Rev. Janet Parsons and Carol Bousquet. We explore a range of ideas based on the theme of the month while centering the principles of the Unitarian Universalist faith. Here are...

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Book Group – March 10

"The Boston Way” received the most votes and is the next book that we will read. The meeting will be March 10 at 3:00 in the Williams Room. I have one copy that members can borrow - please let me know if you are interested. It is also available to check out at the...

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Next Book Discussion – Jan 13, 2pm

The Director is our next selection. Please join us on Jan 13, 2pm in the Williams Room. The Director (2025), by Daniel Kehlman, a celebrated young German-Austrian author, is an historical novel based on the life of G.W. Pabst (1885-1967), the early film director who...

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Announcing Socktober

The fourth annual Socks and Underwear drive sponsored by the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church has a new name – Socktober! During October we will be collecting donations of socks, underwear, hats, gloves and mittens for women and men, girls and boys, to benefit...

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New Podcast!

New GUU Podcast! "Siding With Love" is Gloucester Unitarian Universalist’s monthly podcast, co-hosted by Reverend Janet Parsons and Carol Bousquet. In our conversations, we’ll explore our religious values and principles that call us to help create a world that is...

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Sermon Archive

Jame Baldwin: On Love and Salvation

James Baldwin: On Love and Salvation Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 15, 2026     He could have grown to adulthood consumed with hatred. In fact, he harbored great anger at the way his country treated him and other marginalized people....

To Take Back Our Land Again

To Take Back Our Land Again © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 18, 2026 As I was writing this sermon yesterday, I heard that there was a large-scale protest taking place in Minneapolis, the city most recently targeted for authoritarian control of...

We Fight for Roses, Too!

We Fight for Roses, Too! © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 11, 2026 The story began 114 years ago, on January 1, 1912. That day, a new law took effect in Massachusetts that reduced the number of hours in the work week for women, from 56 hours per...

Prepare Him Room

Prepare Him Room © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church Christmas Eve 2025 One of the most beloved of Christmas church traditions is the staging of Christmas pageants, when a community dresses up in costumes and retells the ancient story, complete with...

Upcoming Services

Cultivating Joy as an act of Resistance, led by guest Reverend Wendy Page. Music by Steve Lacey.

Worship is in-person, or at the livestream link below. Please join us at 10am!

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