Healing Our Wholeness – October 2, 2016

Healing Our Wholeness, Healing the World Reverend Janet Parsons October 2, 2016 Once upon a time, back at the very beginning of time, the Ein Sof, or the Ground of Being, or God, filled the entire universe with its presence. And when the Ein Sof decided to create the...

The Creative Spirit (Rev. Parsons April 24, 2016)

A Sermon Given at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church   April 24, 2016  By  Rev. Janet Parsons I once had the good fortune to be present when someone was struck by a creative spirit, and had the chance to watch what happened. The someone was my husband. We...

Love Will Come Again – Rev. Janet Parsons, Easter 2016

The ancient story has been handed down across time and distance, across languages and cultures. It climaxes unexpectedly: when three grieving women, returning to a tomb to dress the body of their murdered teacher, encounter a mysterious stranger. The body is nowhere...

“Dialogue” by Newt Fink (January 24, 2016)

 Question. My great friend Dr. Mike Sperber always asks huge questions. “So where did we come from?” he calmly asks as we speed down Rt. 128 – he’s taking me to a doctor’s appointment. Do you have a friend like that?   It stirred thoughts that had been forming in my...