New Beginnings Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church July 11, 2021   I chose this reading this morning (from John O’Donohue’s To Bless the Space Between Us) because I think a great deal about how this time is a new beginning for us.  It’s not a time we asked...

A Tale of Three Americas © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church July 4, 2021   I was taken by surprise the other day while I was driving down Route 128.  I was listening to an NPR interview with Keith Lockhart, the conductor of the Boston Pops, about plans for...

Karl Frank, Sally Waite, Peggy Kimball June 20, 2021   Sally, Peggy, and I have all mentioned along the way a few of our daily spiritual practices, as how the poetry and prayers we brought to you, came to us.  If only it had come to us at the edge of the darkness...

Charles Nazarian, June 13, 2021 In a unique celebration of Pride Month, we are enriched this morning by personal messages and songs by LGBTQ musicians Brian King, Deb Hardy with her wife Kerry Mullen, Kaedon Gray, Kerr Griffen, and soon by Johnny Blazes. The freedom...

How Do You Tell Your Story? Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 23, 2021     Chimamanda Adichie came to the United States from her homeland of Nigeria in order to attend college, first at Drexel University and then at Eastern Connecticut State University....

To Build a Church Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 9, 2021   Sixty-one years ago this week, in May of 1960, representatives of the Unitarians and the Universalists met and voted overwhelmingly to consolidate their two denominations into one new...

In the Beginning   © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 2, 2021     There are so many stories.  The life of the world is held in our stories.  Our own lives are made up of stories, one after the other, flowing into each other, weaving our lives into the...

4.25.21 Sermon for Earth Day Sunday. Dick Prouty   Becoming?  What are we becoming because of the effects of climate change on our planet?  What can we become?        I’ve been working on climate issues locally since I retired from PA in 2015.    In 2015 we...

Motion is the Reality Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 18, 2021     I hope that you are able to think of yourself as a shimmering jewel, one of billions that together make up the universe.  Can you picture it?  What color would you be?   We Unitarian...

Hope Rises © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church April 4, 2021     I find that in recent weeks I have been thinking back frequently to last Easter.  I remember the almost heartbreaking hope we had, on that last Sunday together in March of...

Tales of Liberation Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 28, 2021     Passover   The story of Passover is an ancient one.  A famine in Israel forced the patriarch Jacob to lead his large extended family to Egypt, to reunite with his...

A Year in the Life© Two Reflections Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church March 14, 2021   1)         A Year in the Life   Like many of my colleagues, and perhaps many of you, I have had a song stuck in my head this week: Seasons of Love, from the musical Rent. ...