Reflection: Don’t Say Straight, for Gay Pride Sunday, 06-05-22, Charles Nazarian About a month ago a controversial statute was passed in Florida and signed by Governor Desantis that has been widely called the “Don’t Say Gay” law in the media.  It criminalizes and...

REFLECTION:  WHAT IS PEACE?   Charles Nazarian, GUUC Service on 05-15-22 In our Call to Worship you and Lucille recited the Beatitudes from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.  They are among the most profound messages to humanity from the great Teacher.  Each one expresses...

To Seek Out Belonging © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church May 1, 2022   (and Sabbath, below)   “The deepest nature of the soul is relationship.”  (John O’Donohue)   During these past two years we have been challenged to the very core of our beings by the...

Karl Frank 4/24/2022   Welcome.   Welcome to this, our Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church.  All are welcome here,  I am Karl Frank, not the minister, but a member of the congregation, leading the service today in the temporary absence of Reverend Janet Parsons,...

The Bright Spark of Resurrection © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church April 17, 2022     It would have been in the pre-dawn hours, maybe in the gray first light, when women carrying all they would need to anoint and prepare a body set...

No Going Back © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 10, 2022   This past Thursday evening, there was a march here in downtown Gloucester, something that hasn’t happened much in the past two years. Each April, for many years, the Gloucester Coalition for...

What Urgency Calls You? © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church April 3, 2022   It struck me, re-reading David Whyte’s poem that Mern read for us a few minutes ago (What to Remember When Waking) is how often the poets urge us to make sure that we are trying to...

She is The Way © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church March 27, 2022     “She shines without dimming… She rushes to reveal Herself to those who yearn for Her.” (Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-14)   Who is ‘she’? We know this presence by many names....

The Saving Power of We © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 20, 2022   This past week an unusual news story caught my eye. It told of a priest in the Roman Catholic diocese of Phoenix who was discovered to be conducting the sacrament of baptism...

Circles of Love © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church February 13, 2022   Last week an article in the Boston Globe magazine caught my eye; it was about the legacy of Maria Mitchell, known as the first female astronomer in the United States. (“The Heirs of...

The Road to Hell © Reverend Janet Parsons Gloucester UU Church January 30, 2022   “If you come as softly as wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees.   If you come as lightly as threading dew I will take you gladly, nor ask more of...