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...

In the Beginning

In the Beginning   © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 2, 2021     There are so many stories.  The life of the world is held in our stories.  Our own lives are made up of stories, one after the other, flowing into each other, weaving our lives into the...

Sermon for Earth Day Sunday

4.25.21 Sermon for Earth Day Sunday. Dick Prouty   Becoming?  What are we becoming because of the effects of climate change on our planet?  What can we become?        I’ve been working on climate issues locally since I retired from PA in 2015.    In 2015 we...

Motion is the Reality

Motion is the Reality Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 18, 2021     I hope that you are able to think of yourself as a shimmering jewel, one of billions that together make up the universe.  Can you picture it?  What color would you be?   We Unitarian...

Hope Rises

Hope Rises © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church April 4, 2021     I find that in recent weeks I have been thinking back frequently to last Easter.  I remember the almost heartbreaking hope we had, on that last Sunday together in March of...

Tales of Liberation

Tales of Liberation Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 28, 2021     Passover   The story of Passover is an ancient one.  A famine in Israel forced the patriarch Jacob to lead his large extended family to Egypt, to reunite with his...