Sermon Archive
Where Waters Meet and Merge
Where Waters Meet and Merge © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church September 10, 2023 This past June, visiting Pittsburgh for the first time, I found myself drawn to the spot where the Allegheny and the Monongahela Rivers meet to form the...
What’s in A Poem?
Order of Service – August 27, 2023 What's in a Poem? Gloucester UU's Write Poetry Worship leaders Pat Johnson, Mern Sibley, Andrew Soll Introduction to the Poetry Service – What’s in a Poem? (Pat Johnson) Poems I: To everything there is a season For a...
Disrupt Church
Disrupt Church © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church August 13, 2023 At our UU General Assembly back in June, there was a lot of conversation about the future of church. We all know and acknowledge that church attendance is down everywhere. The pandemic...
The Multiverse
SERMON on The Multiverse August 6, 2023 by Karen N. Bell Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church Today we live with exploding knowledge about space, the nature of the atom, degradation of the planet, and...
Sermon 7/30/2023
Sermon: 7/30/23 Holly Tanguay Last week from this pulpit our own Dick Prouty explored tears, his and our own. Dick told us he grows increasingly comfortable with tears as he ages and encourages us to do the same. This week I will explore a different, but occasionally...
When Home Won’t Let You Stay
When Home Won’t Let You Stay © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church July 16, 2023 In 2015, the author Amitav Ghosh began to pay close attention to the “migration crisis” in Europe. For several years now we have all seen the images of overcrowded unseaworthy...
Pleasure Activism
Pleasure Activism © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church June 18, 2023 There was controversy, back in the winter of 2006, about whether New Orleans should celebrate Mardi Gras. Hurricane Katrina had roared through the city in August of 2005, and months...
Pride: Celebration, Protest, and Fear
Pride: Celebration, Protest, and Fear© Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church June 11, 2023 Little Kristin was five years old. One day she was playing with her sister in the family’s living room when her grandmother summoned her to dinner. “Girls, dinner’s...
To Live in Communion
To Live in Communion© Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church June 4, 2023 “How would it beto live like the aspen,to know the selfas one expressionof a glorious, radiant whole,to live in communioninstead of competition…” Each spring, we...
In the Image of the Creator
In the Image of the Creator © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 14, 2023 Yesterday, while procrastinating, I checked in online to see how my minister colleagues were doing. We often start commiserating on Saturdays about our writing process, how we...
Blessed are the Makers
Blessed Are the Makers © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church May 7, 2023 Today is a day of many blessings. We feel the blessing of the warm sun after what has felt like a prolonged cold and wet spell. But on a day like today, we can...
Sacred Fire
Sacred Fire © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 23, 2023 “Every bush is a burning bush…”. (John Muir) It’s always fascinating, to look back at someone’s life, and try to understand how they were able to become who they were intended to be. Time...
Upcoming Services
Summer offers us a chance to attend Brunch Church!
Please join us in the Social Hall Sunday morning for an informal service that is centered around a shared meal and guided conversation. Steve Lacey will provide the music. Please note: there will be no livestream Sunday morning since we will be downstairs. Following the service, Lisa Smith from the Cape Ann Climate Coalition will be joining us: see below for more information.
Free Home Energy Coaching
On Sunday, July 12 Lisa Smith from Cape Ann Climate Coalition will be in the Social Hall following the service to answer questions about CACC's new energy coaching service. Please check out the green flyer here and come to talk to Lisa about your home's energy needs.
Recent News
To Learn from the Land
To Learn from the Land © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 26, 2026 In Northern India, in the state of Meghalaya, which means “the abode of the clouds”, there is a mountainous region known as the Khasi Hills. Many Unitarian Universalists...
Sunday April 26
To Learn from the Land, led by Reverend Janet Parsons. We'll honor Earth Day by seeing ourselves as truly part of nature, not separate from it. Music provided by Andrew Glennon. Worship is in-person, or at the livestream link below....
Building A House Called Tomorrow
Building a House Called Tomorrow © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 19, 2026 When you think about it, a church really is a remarkable thing. To open the service I chose words of a colleague, the Reverend Leslie Takahashi, that set forth...