The church had been a meeting place for leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. and others seeking to end segregation and register African-Americans to vote in Birmingham. No American of conscience who remembers those days can forget the horrible poison of pure hate it...

"Just as long as I have breath I must answer Yes to life." Saying yes to life requires the ability to face our regrets and angers and then to let them go. Some people slog through their lives encumbered by old wounds, grudges, and regrets. They reach old age with a...

This talk was given on December 29, 2013 by Gordon Baird. Those words were written by me on a day when this church had thoroughly recharged my batteries.  I am grateful still.  What can I mean? Ever come to church in an agitated state of mind or in a bad mood or in a...

This sermon was preached on Sunday, November 24, 2013 by Rev. Rankin. It has been a week of iconic photographs and iconic words.  A week of anniversaries—John Kennedy’s assassination, the Gettysburg Address. For me, this week has been filled with images— How many...

This is my church – what can I pay This is where I come to love, honor and pray Why do I care?  Why do I give? These are the questions that hit me where I live!     [download id="175"]

Most fairy tales begin with the phrase “Once upon a time…” and take you to a special place in the imagination.  We sit in a very special place right here every Sunday surrounded by wonders of the tall church tower, ringing of the Paul Revere bell, sonorous beauty of...

When the spiritual life is talked about – agricultural metaphors are often used, metaphors which describe the growing process.  One tends ones' garden, carefully plants the seeds, waters and feeds then, cultivates, pulls the weeds, watches and waits, - as the crops...

Spirit and the Environment  A Sermon Preached by Dick Prouty  at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church       July 14, 2013 I assume all of you are now concerned more about the environment than you were five years.  I sure am!  The reality of the impact of...

 Sermon Preached on September 15, 2013 It is Opening Sunday, my first here with you. We walk across the threshold, through those great doors,  and come into the shelter of these old walls.   As women and men and children have been doing now for hundreds of years.  We...

This talk was given at our church by Ginny Cohen, R.N. on February 24, 2013.  The talk features "The 5 Wishes" document put out by Aging with Dignity.    Ginny says, "A few years ago I attended a session given by my Health Ministry Association in Framingham. ... I was...

Newt Fink gave this talk on May 6, 2012 In the reading from the children’s book, Madeline, Miss Clavel – the nanny or governess whoever she was – wakes in the middle of the night, turns on the light, and says “Something is not right.” The story aside, the words...