by Christine | Apr 8, 2020 | Sermons
Dreams in the Desert Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 5, 2020 This week the two religious traditions that give us our roots are celebrating important holidays. It’s Holy Week in the Christian tradition: beginning today with Palm Sunday and...
by Christine | Mar 30, 2020 | Sermons
Sunday, March 22 2020 Call to Worship As Susan Taormina plays our opening hymn — wordlessly on piano— see if you can recollect singing the version in our hymnal, in which we sing in praise of the blue skies of our homeland, but then acknowledge that other people love...
by Christine | Mar 28, 2020 | Sermons
Singing Our Way to Hope Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 15, 2020 A period of time spent wandering in the wilderness is one of the oldest and most common themes in storytelling. It is the idea of a quest: a journey into uncharted territory,...
by Christine | Mar 10, 2020 | Sermons
Today we are drawing on some wisdom that was written over 700 years ago. Imagine your writings surviving for over 700 years. Not merely surviving, but becoming known more and more around the world, translated into new languages, spread by technologies that the author...
by Christine | Mar 4, 2020 | Sermons
Hagia Sophia: The Feminine Face of God Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 1, 2020 In the sixth century of the Common Era, a church was built in Constantinople by the order of the Roman Emperor Justinian and the Empress Theodosia. The church was the...
by Christine | Mar 4, 2020 | Sermons
To Rise, To Reach a Little Deeper Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 16, 2020 “It is that time and place to remember those who came through the long night to witness another sunrise.” (Qiyamah Rahman, in Voices from the Margins, p. 14-16.) This is...
