New Beginnings

New Beginnings Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church July 11, 2021   I chose this reading this morning (from John O’Donohue’s To Bless the Space Between Us) because I think a great deal about how this time is a new beginning for us.  It’s not a time we asked...

A Tale of Three Americas

A Tale of Three Americas © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church July 4, 2021   I was taken by surprise the other day while I was driving down Route 128.  I was listening to an NPR interview with Keith Lockhart, the conductor of the Boston Pops, about plans for...

Sermon June 20, 2021

Karl Frank, Sally Waite, Peggy Kimball June 20, 2021   Sally, Peggy, and I have all mentioned along the way a few of our daily spiritual practices, as how the poetry and prayers we brought to you, came to us.  If only it had come to us at the edge of the darkness...

Liberation Is For Everyone

Charles Nazarian, June 13, 2021 In a unique celebration of Pride Month, we are enriched this morning by personal messages and songs by LGBTQ musicians Brian King, Deb Hardy with her wife Kerry Mullen, Kaedon Gray, Kerr Griffen, and soon by Johnny Blazes. The freedom...

How Do You Tell Your Story

How Do You Tell Your Story? Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 23, 2021     Chimamanda Adichie came to the United States from her homeland of Nigeria in order to attend college, first at Drexel University and then at Eastern Connecticut State University....

To Build a Church

To Build a Church Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 9, 2021   Sixty-one years ago this week, in May of 1960, representatives of the Unitarians and the Universalists met and voted overwhelmingly to consolidate their two denominations into one new...