Sermon at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church on January 6th, 2019 Still Christmas? Charles Nazarian   This treasured Meetinghouse, now entering its third century, has witnessed much…the civil war, the 1918 flu pandemic, the great depression, the...

Out of the Darkness Emerges Love © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church December 9, 2018 “Darkness, soothe my weary eyes, that I may see more clearly. When my heart with sorrow cries, comfort and caress me. And then my soul may hear a voice, a still, small...

Awake to Wonder© Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church December 2, 2018 One August night, I found myself stretched out on my back on a splintery wooden dock on the shore of a New Hampshire pond, gazing up at the sky. It was during the...

Now Our Minds Are One© Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church November 18, 2018   As some of you know, in recent months I have been dabbling in pottery. It has been a challenging and quite humbling hobby so far. I like to tell people that I aspire to...