Unfolding Faith: Sermons from Foothills Unitarian

Rev. Sean guides us in a meditation to help bring ourselves, our bodies, our minds, and our focus fully into the here and now with all its gifts and challenges.

Learn all about the Five Jagged Rocks! First, Rev. Gretchen introduces the Five Jagged Rocks, an evolving group of five foundations on which we can base our Unitarian Universalist faith. Then Rev. Sean speaks with Rev. Nancy Bowen, who was instrumental in catalyzing and formulating the Five Jagged Rocks.

Rev. Sean invites us into a time of contemplation and reflection. He guides us to bring ourselves into the present, practice self-compassion, and awaken to the joy of life.

Rev. Gretchen explains the meaning of Beloved Community and how building the Beloved Community is an integral part of what it means to journey together as a Unitarian Universalist faith community.

Sometimes people talk about being either someone who focuses on inner growth or social change. Rev. Gretchen invites us to consider these instincts as two sides of the same journey.

Rev. Gretchen offers a meditation to help us breathe and make space for "the wild animal of the soul to show up" and to conspire with ourselves, with each other, and with something greater.

Rev. Sean explains what our mission of unleashing Courageous Love actually means. 

Rev. Sean Neil-Barron draws on the work of Parker Palmer to explore how Unitarian Universalism asks us to live from the inside out - how the work of being in relationship with ourselves helps us be in relationship with others. When we shake off the tyranny of “should,” we make space to listen to our authentic selves, and when we listen to our authentic selves, when we live by our own standards, we are empowered to discern our vocation – our calling.