by Christine | Mar 29, 2023 | Sermons
The Key of Longing © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 26, 2023 “Bring your broken hallelujah here… We all bring some broken things, songs and dreams, and long lost hopes…” There was a civil war, in the 1990’s, in Bosnia, in Eastern Europe....
by Christine | Mar 15, 2023 | Sermons
The Privilege of Vulnerability © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 12, 2023 They haven’t caught the vandal or vandals that spray-painted hate messages on 16 businesses and the local synagogue in Portsmouth, New Hampshire late in February. But the...
by Christine | Mar 6, 2023 | Sermons
To Be Alive is to Be Vulnerable © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 5, 2023 We have learned a lot these past three years. We’ve learned some science, and some medicine. We’ve learned a lot about our economy, and how dependent we are on the global...
by Christine | Feb 20, 2023 | Sermons
General Assembly, 1969 Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 19, 2023 “I’m not saying that a demonstration is going to solve the problems…It’s going to take something much more than a demonstration, but at least the demonstration calls attention to...
by Christine | Feb 13, 2023 | Sermons
To Call Yourself Beloved Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 14, 2023 “And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth.” ~~ Raymond...
by Christine | Feb 6, 2023 | Sermons
The Crucible © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 5, 2023 I took time yesterday to stand and watch the sea smoke rising and blowing. At times it was so thick that the water was completely covered with a layer of swirling white. Huge puffy clouds...
