Unfolding Faith: Sermons from Foothills Unitarian

"Transcendent Mystery, Transcendent Hope" Rev. Hannah Roberts Villnave (12/23/18)

"[Mystery] empowers us to follow the call that seems to beckon from the horizon of our possibilities, but really comes from the inner core of our souls." -David A. Cooper

"Nativity Conspiracy" Rev. Sean Neil-Barron (12/16/18)

"Fear closes us. Remaining open to what is unknown is necessary for change and for building community in difference. " Dr. Alison Downie
 

"Don't Wait for Joy" Rev. Sean Neil-Barron (12/9/18)

Rev. Sean's homily on Music Sunday. 

"Hope That Breathes" Rev. Gretchen Haley (12/2/18)

"Hope is a vigorous choice, to see what is wrong and what needs healing, and also to keep our hearts and our imaginations and our energy oriented towards what we want to build, what we want to create, what we’re walking towards." - Krista Tippett"May we know the hope that is not just for someday but for this day...hope not made of wishes but of substance, hope made of sinew and muscle and bone, hope that has breath and a beating heart, hope that knows how to sing...." - Jan Richardson

"Dependence" Kristen Psaki (11/25/18)

"I love my country too, and its hopes for freedom and justice. But the boundaries of what I honor are bigger than the republic. Let us pledge reciprocity with the living world."" - Robin Wall Kimmerer
"I cannot live another moment, at least not one of joy, unless you and I find our oneness somewhere among each other, somewhere between the noise, somewhere within the silence of the next breath." - Rev. Kristen L. Harper

"We Get What We Deserve...?" Rev. Shawna Foster (11/18/18)

Guest Minister, the Rev. Shawna Foster, of Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist, preaches. 
“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.” ― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions “Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.” ― Audre Lorde

"Abandoning Common Ground" Rev. Sean Neil-Barron (11/11/18)

"To live in a democracy is to have the right to govern, not simply to be governed; rule not just be ruled; heard not silenced; and to lose without fearing that winners take all." Unitarian Universalist Political Commentator Melissa Harris-Perry On Living in a Democracy. 

"Factions We Love" Rev. Gretchen Haley (11/4/18)

"The flip side of political polarization is the fact of these factions that feed us, factions that we love -- and that love us."