by Christine | Oct 15, 2021 | Sermons
The ‘We’ Above the ‘I’ © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 10, 2021 Braiding Sweetgrass, a beautiful book about indigenous wisdom and what plants have to teach us, is full of stories. The author, Robin Wall Kimmerer, recounted that she once met a...
by Christine | Oct 4, 2021 | Sermons
Good Neighbors © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 3, 2021 There is a hillside in Salem, that I discovered recently. It’s a small area, tucked between two ordinary houses on an ordinary street. It is a hillside known as Proctor’s Ledge, and there,...
by Christine | Aug 26, 2021 | Sermons
Led by Newt Fink, Aug 22, 2021 August 22, 2021 UU The guidance system In many examples from nature we see the workings of an apparent guidance system. A tiny bird, the Red Knot, migrates every year eight thousand miles without a map, without a device, through...
by Christine | Aug 26, 2021 | Sermons
Led by Lucille LePage July 18, 2021 So, what is a Flower Communion? And what is its significance? The story begins almost 100 years ago, in Czechoslovakia, with Dr. Norbert Capek and his wife Maja. Both were Unitarian ministers who started the Unitarian Church of...
by Christine | Aug 26, 2021 | Sermons
New Beginnings Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church July 11, 2021 I chose this reading this morning (from John O’Donohue’s To Bless the Space Between Us) because I think a great deal about how this time is a new beginning for us. It’s not a time we asked...
