What’s Stopping Us? Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 17, 2021 (Martin Luther King Sunday)   It’s still a scene that I love to watch, and that still can bring tears to my eyes: the scene in Grant Park in Chicago, on November 5, 2008, when Barack...

Reimagining a Country © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 10, 2021   “They left for their own country by another road.”   So ends the tale of the Magi, the Wise Men, the astronomers from the East who saw a new star and followed it to find...

Hope Arising Reverend Janet Parsons January 3, 2021   This has likely been the most anticipated, the most consequential New Year since the turn of the century 20 years ago now. This New Year, I found myself feeling as though it wasn’t enough to just watch the ball...

Reflection: The Old Year Has Now Passed Away In past years, the Sunday after Christmas was often a quiet one with fewer people in church than usual after the buildup of Advent, the concerts, pageants, parties and finally the arrival of Christmas Day with large,...