by Christine | Oct 24, 2019 | Sermons
Love Can Build a House that Stands Forever © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 20, 2019 I received an unexpected gift on Wednesday afternoon. A very special gift, in the form of 29 youth, and their adult leaders, who visited us from the First...
by Christine | Oct 1, 2019 | Sermons
Writing in the Book of Life © Reverend Janet Parsons September 29, 2019 It’s hard to deny these past few days: the leaves on the trees are beginning to turn. This past week we’ve been savoring the lingering warmth of late summer, well, early fall, really, and being...
by Christine | Sep 25, 2019 | Sermons
In Praise of the Dappled Things © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church September 15, 2019 Our poet knew no fame during his lifetime. Nor did he seek any. A Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins lived a conflicted life; never sure of how to reconcile his...
by Christine | Sep 10, 2019 | Sermons
Confluence © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church September 8, 2019 Deep in the Amazon, vast rivers meet and mingle their waters. The tributaries that ultimately combine to form the Amazon River begin in the highlands of South America, and...
by Christine | Aug 26, 2019 | Sermons
Libraries, Church, and the Unexpected A sermon delivered on Aug 25, 2019 at Gloucester’s UU Church By Mern Sibley and Roger Garberg Welcome and Announcements Our remarks today compare two different kinds of sanctuary—the church and the public library. Part of the...
by Christine | Aug 19, 2019 | Sermons
Thoreau and the Examined Life by Karl Frank Aug 18, 2019 In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember, that it is, after all, always the first...
