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
The Road Ahead, led by Reverend Janet Parsons, with Andrew Glennon, pianist. Our theme for November is Healing. Join us as we consider our work in the days and years ahead with the election behind us. The mood will be upbeat and coffee hour will be extra celebratory!
Worship is in-person or at the livestream link below. Please join us at 10am. Everyone is welcome!
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Recent News
Sunday Aug 23
Gloucester UU joins Rockport and Essex for a joint service in Essex, 10am. Also on Zoom, see below. Sunday August 23rd 10 am Stronger Together with Rev. Tess Baumberger Join us for a service about how we can be stronger by working together, using the symbols of...
What Brought You Here
What Brought You Here Jonathan Hudgins, 8/16/2026 Readings Much of what brought me here is the history of this place. So, buckle up, I’ll be weaving plenty of history into today’s service. --- In July 1846, A D Mayo became the pastor of our Gloucester...
Sunday, Aug 16
"What brought you here". Sunday's worship service is led by church member Jonathan Hudgins and will be centered around new members expressing what they have found meaningful about our church. Music provided by Steve Lacey. Join us at 10a.m. Worship is in-person, or at...