by Christine | Nov 3, 2021 | Sermons
What Graveyards Are 1418 Words Karl Frank Oct 31, 2021 When asked if I would deliver a homily today, in a service where we would commemorate the dead, I knew I had some ideas about those things, more particularly about graveyards. I had recently read Robert...
by Christine | Oct 25, 2021 | Sermons
Make Our Broken Pieces Whole © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 24, 2021 I had a really positive experience the other day, that I enjoyed thoroughly – I got to sit with a couple of church members to air some conflict. I’ve said often that...
by Christine | Oct 15, 2021 | Sermons
The ‘We’ Above the ‘I’ © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 10, 2021 Braiding Sweetgrass, a beautiful book about indigenous wisdom and what plants have to teach us, is full of stories. The author, Robin Wall Kimmerer, recounted that she once met a...
by Christine | Oct 4, 2021 | Sermons
Good Neighbors © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 3, 2021 There is a hillside in Salem, that I discovered recently. It’s a small area, tucked between two ordinary houses on an ordinary street. It is a hillside known as Proctor’s Ledge, and there,...
by Christine | Aug 26, 2021 | Sermons
Led by Newt Fink, Aug 22, 2021 August 22, 2021 UU The guidance system In many examples from nature we see the workings of an apparent guidance system. A tiny bird, the Red Knot, migrates every year eight thousand miles without a map, without a device, through...
