by Christine | Apr 11, 2023 | Sermons
Now Let Us Rise Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 9, 2023 “…maybe we are not so different than the leaves. …maybe we are also always being reborn to be something more then we once were. …maybe that’s what waking up each morning is.” (For the...
by Christine | Apr 6, 2023 | Sermons
Spiritual Resistance © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 2, 2023 Introduction Typically when we think of the word ‘resistance’, it’s not at all in a spiritual context. Resistance usually implies an active response – pushing back at something or...
by Christine | Mar 29, 2023 | Sermons
The Key of Longing © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 26, 2023 “Bring your broken hallelujah here… We all bring some broken things, songs and dreams, and long lost hopes…” There was a civil war, in the 1990’s, in Bosnia, in Eastern Europe....
by Christine | Mar 15, 2023 | Sermons
The Privilege of Vulnerability © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 12, 2023 They haven’t caught the vandal or vandals that spray-painted hate messages on 16 businesses and the local synagogue in Portsmouth, New Hampshire late in February. But the...
by Christine | Mar 6, 2023 | Sermons
To Be Alive is to Be Vulnerable © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 5, 2023 We have learned a lot these past three years. We’ve learned some science, and some medicine. We’ve learned a lot about our economy, and how dependent we are on the global...
by Christine | Feb 20, 2023 | Sermons
General Assembly, 1969 Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 19, 2023 “I’m not saying that a demonstration is going to solve the problems…It’s going to take something much more than a demonstration, but at least the demonstration calls attention to...