GUUC Gallery Jan 27 & Feb 3

A pop up exhibition of photographs taken in Meghalaya India in 2011 and 2013 by Jim Seavey will be open through the next two weeks during the regular Saturday hours (12 TO 4) at the GUUC Gallery, 10 Church St. Gloucester. Arrangements for a private viewing can be made...
Love The Hell Out of This World

Love The Hell Out of This World

Love the Hell Out of This World © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 21, 2024     I read a story recently by the Reverend Susan Frederick-Gray, who just last June finished her term as the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. She was...
Power Without Love…Love Without Power

Power Without Love…Love Without Power

Power Without Love…Love Without Power © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 14, 2024     It wasn’t until the election of 2016 that I fully came to understand the depth of the derision and dislike that conservative sectors of our country, actually,...

To Lead with Love

To Lead with Love © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 7, 2024     We speak often about love. Love is, perhaps, the greatest force we know, perhaps the greatest mystery, ‘the only magic’ it was called in our reading earlier. So we think about it,...

The Risk of Birth

The Risk of Birth Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church Christmas Eve, 2023   In 1973, the poet Madeleine L’Engle wrote these words:   “This is no time for a child to be born, With the earth betrayed by war & hate And a comet slashing the sky to warn That...