To Touch Inward Springs

To Touch Inward Springs © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church May 5, 2019   Two hundred years ago, the arguments between liberal and conservative Congregationalists in New England were almost as intense as the conflicts between...

Resurrection of the Creation

Resurrection of the Creation © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019   The ancient story tells us that on the day Jesus was crucified, there were two other men crucified beside him. One of them asked Jesus to remember him as he...

What Might You Sacrifice?

What Might You Sacrifice? © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 14, 2019   …And last spring along the Back Shore swam right whales. Early in May last year, a pod of right whales, a rather large percentage of the tiny number of right whales still...

A Journey in Poetry

Sunday, March 24, 2019   Call to Worship by Kathleen McTigue (excerpt) Here in the refuge of this Sabbath home We turn our busy minds toward silence, And our full hearts toward one another. We move together through the mysteries: The bright surprise of birth and...

From Heart to Head and Back to Heart

From Heart to Head and Back to Heart Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 31, 2019   “We were born with silence, and as we grew up, we lost the silence and were filled with words. We lived in our hearts, and as time passed, we moved into our heads…”...

Greening Power

Greening Power Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church March 17, 2019   Today is all about green. Each year Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, taking to the streets to party, with parades, and green clothes, hair, face paint, and...