by Christine | Jul 3, 2019 | Sermons
Douglas Smith’s sermon 6/23/2019 Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church We don’t usually think of this time of year as midsummer, but it is just in these longest days that midsummer festivals are celebrated – and have been from time immemorial. Stonehenge, built in...
by Christine | Jun 11, 2019 | Sermons
The Rhythms of Our Lives © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church June 9, 2019 “Whatever beat is moving through your bones, Whatever holy disturbance is rising in your chest…” This much we all know about our lives, and the lives of all creatures: there is a beat...
by Christine | Jun 5, 2019 | Sermons
We gather here, surrounded by the promise of a June morning, in the wake of yet another mass shooting. As the number of dead and wounded people rise, month by month, week by week, across our country, we face the threat not only of being direct victims of a gun...
by Christine | May 28, 2019 | Sermons
Let My Heart Be Open Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church May 26, 2019 With spring finally here, I have been trying to spend some time out in the yard. The other day I decided to get a shovel and dig up the new patch of Japanese...
by Christine | May 28, 2019 | Sermons
Connecting the Threads of Kindness by Kelly Knox May 26, 2019 I came across kindness by accident. Kindness as a project that is. Kindness in general, that was birthing happenstance. My mother is one of the kindest people I know. I never heard her say an unkind word...
by Christine | May 17, 2019 | Sermons
Getting Proximate Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church May 12, 2019 “Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.” “Treasure curiosity more than certainty.” (from “Turning to One Another,” by Margaret J. Wheatley) Bryan...
