Sermon Archive
For All You Who Let Yourselves Feel
For All You Who Let Yourselves Feel © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 28 2024 We’ve been talking a lot the past couple of weeks about the interconnectedness of everything here on Earth, from unseen life underground to all the plants and animals...
Mother Earth, Mother Trees
Mother Earth, Mother Trees © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 21, 2024 It could be said that Suzanne Simard’s lifelong fascination with forests began one day when she was six and her grandfather’s dog ended up trapped in the outhouse. Suzanne’s...
The Cloud in the Paper
The Cloud in the Paper © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 14, 2024 Diana Beresford was orphaned at the age of 12. Both of her parents died within months of each other, and she was left in the care of an indifferent uncle in the city of Cork, in...
Universal Resurrection
Universal Resurrection © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 31, 2024 There is so much that we understand about this time of year, this time when life begins to emerge from the cold, barren earth. We know enough science to anticipate this emergence, to...
Countless Small Actions
Countless Small Actions © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 10, 2024 We had a good time talking about butterflies in our service last week. For those who weren’t here or watching online, I was talking about how personal transformation in our lives...
Imaginal Cells
Imaginal Cells © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 3, 2024 He was an enemy of the earliest Christians, a Pharisee named Saul of Tarsus, who was charged with hunting down the apostles and their followers, and ordering them dragged off to prison. He...
Reparations Service
Reparations Service. 2/18/24 Remarks Dick Prouty As you look around this sanctuary today and take in the wonderfully designed woodwork and stained-glass windows, how many of you are aware that this building was built in large part by the fortunes of families on Cape...
Confronting the Past, Creating the Future
Confronting the Past, Creating the Future © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 18, 2024 In April of 1862, at the height of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a law giving freedom to enslaved people in the District of Columbia. This...
Toward a Truly Liberating Theology for UU’s
Toward a Truly Liberating Theology for UU’s © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 11, 2024 It was Dr. Paul Farmer, the late founder of Partners in Health, who introduced me to the concept of Liberation Theology. I was devouring Tracy Kidder’s...
The Stories Behind the Music
The Stories Behind the Music © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 4, 2024 Today is the time and the place to call upon the memories of the ancestors. Today we are hearing of heroes, and of giants. In the words of our author Qiyamah Rahman, “It is...
Love The Hell Out of This World
Love the Hell Out of This World © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 21, 2024 I read a story recently by the Reverend Susan Frederick-Gray, who just last June finished her term as the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. She was...
Power Without Love…Love Without Power
Power Without Love…Love Without Power © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 14, 2024 It wasn’t until the election of 2016 that I fully came to understand the depth of the derision and dislike that conservative sectors of our country, actually,...
Upcoming Services
Cultivating Joy as an act of Resistance, led by guest Reverend Wendy Page. Music by Steve Lacey.
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Sunday Jan 18
o Take Back Our Land Again, led by Reverend Janet Parsons We take time each year to honor and remember Dr. Martin Luther King and try to ask ourselves some of the questions he might be asking us today. Music by Robert Noble. Please join us at 10am, in-person or at...
We Fight for Roses, Too!
We Fight for Roses, Too! © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 11, 2026 The story began 114 years ago, on January 1, 1912. That day, a new law took effect in Massachusetts that reduced the number of hours in the work week for women, from 56 hours per...
Sunday Jan 11
We Fight for Roses, Too!, led by Reverend Janet Parsons, with Andy Soll, guest organist. As we explore our theme of Resistance this weekend we remember the importance of human dignity: our Unitarian Universalist first Principle. Everyone is welcome! Please join us at...