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...

The Rev. Wendy Fitting gave this sermon on Easter Sunday - April 8, 2012 Yesterday a dear and thoughtful friend asked me if I liked Christianity … seemed a good idea to think long and hard before answering … but the immediate from the heart and mind response was: ...

Becoming and Belonging The Rev. Rona Tyndall gave this sermon at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church on March 18, 2012. Do you like elephants?  I’m crazy about them.  Elephants are not only naturally social creatures, they actually form complex...

The following was read on the air by radio commentator, Paul Harvey.  (The original author is Bo Lozoff, and Wendy shared it in her December 19th sermon.)  An Open Letter from God My dear children, and believe Me, that is all of you, I consider Myself a pretty patient...

"Sermon on the Amount"  -  Rev. Wendy Fitting Every one of us - when we go to bed at night - makes sure that the house is in order.  The fire is banked. The lights are extinguished. The children have eaten and brushed their teeth and are safe in their beds.  We have...