by Christine | Nov 9, 2022 | Sermons
Jeremy Taylor Melvin Reflection – All Souls’ Day Given at: Gloucester UU Church October 30th, 2022 I went to Ipswich yesterday. I grew up there, but go there infrequently. Or at least not much to the part of town I grew up in. And when I do, I am usually...
by Christine | Nov 7, 2022 | Sermons
Rising to Change © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church November 6, 2022 It seems that there is an election in a couple of days. I’m sure that you might have noticed. Quite some time ago, in a fit of anger over some of the actions, or inactions, of the...
by Christine | Oct 27, 2022 | Sermons
Courage Confronting Racism Dick Prouty. 10.23.202 Fifty years ago this month, Doris and I were in bed @ 10:30PM in our new house in Lanesville, just up from the Cove, on a chilly evening. Suddenly, we heard a lot of commotion in the front yard and looked out...
by Christine | Oct 27, 2022 | Sermons
Reading from A Larger Hope, by Russell Miller Pat Our first reading is excerpted from an account of the early years of John Murray and the Universalists here in Gloucester. “In February, 1777, 16 members of the...
by Christine | Oct 17, 2022 | Sermons
The Flow of Abundance © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 16, 2022 These days, when I meditate, I most often find myself envisioning water; sunlight filtering down through water, the gentle waves rocking underwater plants and sand to and fro, the...
by Christine | Oct 11, 2022 | Sermons
Truth Alone is Strong © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 9, 2022 If you are like me, perhaps you felt your eyebrows raise at the mention of Abraham Lincoln in our reading, ordering the execution of 38 Dakota warriors on the day after Christmas...
