by Christine | Feb 28, 2022 | Sermons
The Saving Power of We © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 20, 2022 This past week an unusual news story caught my eye. It told of a priest in the Roman Catholic diocese of Phoenix who was discovered to be conducting the sacrament of baptism...
by Christine | Feb 14, 2022 | Sermons
Circles of Love © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 13, 2022 Last week an article in the Boston Globe magazine caught my eye; it was about the legacy of Maria Mitchell, known as the first female astronomer in the United States. (“The Heirs of...
by Christine | Feb 7, 2022 | Sermons
The Road to Hell © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 30, 2022 “If you come as softly as wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly as threading dew I will take you gladly, nor ask more of...
by Christine | Jan 26, 2022 | Sermons
Sacred Moments and Holy Places © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church January 23, 2022 The other day Thich Nhat Hanh, the venerable Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, transitioned from this life to the next one at the age of 95. His life was...
by Christine | Jan 18, 2022 | Sermons
Dictionary.com’s 2021 Word of the Year © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 16, 2022 In case there are any of you who haven’t looked up the 2021 Word of the Year yet, we’ll get to that in just a minute. Maybe your curiosity got the better of you and...