by Christine | Aug 4, 2023 | Sermons
Sermon: 7/30/23 Holly Tanguay Last week from this pulpit our own Dick Prouty explored tears, his and our own. Dick told us he grows increasingly comfortable with tears as he ages and encourages us to do the same. This week I will explore a different, but occasionally...
by Christine | Jul 17, 2023 | Sermons
When Home Won’t Let You Stay © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church July 16, 2023 In 2015, the author Amitav Ghosh began to pay close attention to the “migration crisis” in Europe. For several years now we have all seen the images of overcrowded unseaworthy...
by Christine | Jun 20, 2023 | Sermons
Pleasure Activism © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church June 18, 2023 There was controversy, back in the winter of 2006, about whether New Orleans should celebrate Mardi Gras. Hurricane Katrina had roared through the city in August of 2005, and months...
by Christine | Jun 12, 2023 | Sermons
Pride: Celebration, Protest, and Fear© Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church June 11, 2023 Little Kristin was five years old. One day she was playing with her sister in the family’s living room when her grandmother summoned her to dinner. “Girls, dinner’s...
by Christine | Jun 7, 2023 | Sermons
To Live in Communion© Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church June 4, 2023 “How would it beto live like the aspen,to know the selfas one expressionof a glorious, radiant whole,to live in communioninstead of competition…” Each spring, we...
by Christine | May 15, 2023 | Sermons
In the Image of the Creator © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 14, 2023 Yesterday, while procrastinating, I checked in online to see how my minister colleagues were doing. We often start commiserating on Saturdays about our writing process, how we...
