Relinquishing Privilege

Relinquishing Privilege © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church November 5, 2023   I wasn’t sure that Darren Walker still had a job. After I finished reading his opinion piece in the New York Times, portions of which Pat just read, I looked him up on line to see...

The Thinning of the Veil

The Thinning of the Veil © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 29, 2023   In the fifth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry and his friends find themselves dueling with wizards from the dark side, called the Death Eaters....

Midnight Rumblings on Mahogany

Midnight Rumblings on Mahogany © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 15, 2023     Unitarian and Universalist historians have always been a little bit squeamish about discussing the phenomenon of Spiritualism that swept the country in the 19th century....

A Little Beyond: Transcendentalism

A Little Beyond: Transcendentalism © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 1, 2023   The movement called Transcendentalism, began to emerge in the 1830’s, during a time of intellectual ferment, in a new nation full of new ideas, founded in revolution. It...

At-one-ment

At-one-ment © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church September 24, 2023   You have to really admire the Ziz; the giant mythical bird in the story I told a few minutes ago. He had a good heart and a good soul; he meant well and didn’t want to hurt anyone. And yet,...