by Christine | Mar 11, 2019 | Sermons
Encountering the Sacred Everywhere Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 10, 2019 On my very first morning in India, I found myself in a tour bus bouncing down the highway from the Varanasi airport to the hotel. Suddenly the tour guide called our attention...
by Christine | Feb 7, 2019 | Sermons
Risking Trust © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church February 3, 2019 Recently a young woman wrote to a newspaper advice column looking for help in coping with the end of a romantic relationship. Her partner, who had been mentioning...
by Christine | Jan 29, 2019 | Sermons
Answering the Knock Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 20, 2019 Year after year, Martin Luther King Day is observed in various ways all across the country. Right here in Cape Ann a week ago, despite the ice, we had the march and service at the...
by Christine | Jan 9, 2019 | Sermons
Sermon at the Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church on January 6th, 2019 Still Christmas? Charles Nazarian This treasured Meetinghouse, now entering its third century, has witnessed much…the civil war, the 1918 flu pandemic, the great depression, the...
by Christine | Dec 10, 2018 | Sermons
Out of the Darkness Emerges Love © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church December 9, 2018 “Darkness, soothe my weary eyes, that I may see more clearly. When my heart with sorrow cries, comfort and caress me. And then my soul may hear a voice, a still, small...
by Christine | Dec 3, 2018 | Sermons
Awake to Wonder© Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church December 2, 2018 One August night, I found myself stretched out on my back on a splintery wooden dock on the shore of a New Hampshire pond, gazing up at the sky. It was during the...
