by Christine | Mar 31, 2025 | Sermons
Sabbath as Resistance Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 30, 2025 (adapted from original 1/3/16) “Let there be stillness in my heart for a moment, the balance point between breathing in and breathing out, like the pause of a dancer between movements in...
by Christine | Mar 26, 2025 | Sermons
Trusting Hope © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 23, 2025 Well. What a year this past week has been. One thing has become clear over the past two months, and that is: we’ve been strapped into a roller coaster for a very long ride. Now, roller coasters...
by Christine | Mar 19, 2025 | Sermons
Trusting Religious Community © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 16, 2025 It’s a story that never seems to end. This week, along with the daily headlines that just seem to go from bad to worse, a news story popped up about a megachurch pastor who was...
by Christine | Mar 18, 2025 | Sermons
Unsheathing the Heart © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 9, 2025 There is an ancient teaching that has long been attributed to the Buddha himself. It says, “Be ye lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence; hold to the truth within yourselves as to...
by Christine | Feb 25, 2025 | Sermons
Potluck © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 23, 2025 There is an old fable that I’m sure just about everyone knows: the story of Stone Soup. In this tale, an old woman suddenly arrives in a poor village. People there lived a pinched existence, and...
by Christine | Feb 21, 2025 | Sermons
Love in Action © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 16, 2025 On September 20, 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. was holding a book signing in Manhattan, having just published Stride Toward Freedom, his book about the Montgomery bus boycott. A mentally ill...
