by Christine | Nov 3, 2021 | Sermons
What Graveyards Are 1418 Words Karl Frank Oct 31, 2021 When asked if I would deliver a homily today, in a service where we would commemorate the dead, I knew I had some ideas about those things, more particularly about graveyards. I had recently read Robert...
by Christine | Oct 25, 2021 | Sermons
Make Our Broken Pieces Whole © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church October 24, 2021 I had a really positive experience the other day, that I enjoyed thoroughly – I got to sit with a couple of church members to air some conflict. I’ve said often that...
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...
