by Christine | Apr 11, 2022 | Sermons
No Going Back © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 10, 2022 This past Thursday evening, there was a march here in downtown Gloucester, something that hasn’t happened much in the past two years. Each April, for many years, the Gloucester Coalition for...
by Christine | Apr 7, 2022 | Sermons
What Urgency Calls You? © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 3, 2022 It struck me, re-reading David Whyte’s poem that Mern read for us a few minutes ago (What to Remember When Waking) is how often the poets urge us to make sure that we are trying to...
by Christine | Mar 29, 2022 | Sermons
She is The Way © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church March 27, 2022 “She shines without dimming… She rushes to reveal Herself to those who yearn for Her.” (Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-14) Who is ‘she’? We know this presence by many names....
by Christine | Mar 21, 2022 | Sermons
For There is Always Light © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 20, 2022 The fog yesterday sent me into a very pensive state of mind. I stared for long periods at the patterns created by the bare tree branches, which was about all I could see. I find...
by Christine | Feb 28, 2022 | Sermons
The Saving Power of We © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 20, 2022 This past week an unusual news story caught my eye. It told of a priest in the Roman Catholic diocese of Phoenix who was discovered to be conducting the sacrament of baptism...
by Christine | Feb 14, 2022 | Sermons
Circles of Love © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 13, 2022 Last week an article in the Boston Globe magazine caught my eye; it was about the legacy of Maria Mitchell, known as the first female astronomer in the United States. (“The Heirs of...
