Unfolding Faith: Sermons from Foothills Unitarian

Beyond Belief: Love Demands Everything

In these days of fear, we must keep asking: what sacrifices must we make to make belonging real? Not just pretty words, but actual bodies fed, actual doors opened, actual love lived out loud.
That's the work. That's the fight. Building a belonging so fierce, so wide, so stubbornly inclusive that even our enemies find themselves home.

Beautiful and Broken: The World as it Actually Is

The world is so beautiful - and in the beauty we see the fullness of what is broken. Our living practice invites us to answer the call of beauty, which is justice.
This Sunday as part of our Beyond Belief series, The Rev. Mary Katherine Morn joins us at Foothills to dive into that invitation - that tug toward wholeness, even (especially) when everything feels broken - and the tools that love and beauty offer us as we hold this work in community. 
The Rev. Mary Katherine Morn has led the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) as President and Lead Executive Officer since 2018, and has been in faith-based leadership and justice work for over 30 years in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and far beyond.

Beyond Belief: Hope Is An Unfinished Story

Join us as we explore the spiritual practice of hope-making—where faith isn't belief or proof, but the stubborn insistence that we belong to each other, and we're not letting go.
In June, Rev. Sean addressed UU General Assembly, where the Liberal Religious Educators Association asked him to share how we approach social change here at Foothills. How we do the work when everything feels like it's breaking.
In this service, as part of our Beyond Belief series, Sean brings pieces of that sermon home. Because we need to remember how to make hope follow us when the way forward disappears under our feet. How to trust that what emerges through raw, real relationship will transform us through trust, rupture, and repair into something the world desperately needs.
Rev. Sean Neil-Barron // July 13, 2025

Beyond Belief: No One Is Disposable

In our series that starts this Sunday, Beyond Belief: The Living Practice of Unitarian Universalism, we aren’t offering easy answers or spiritual platitudes. We're asking, what if faith isn't about believing the right things, but about living with courage, curiosity, and radical love?
This Sunday, join Rev. Elaine as we begin the series "Beyond Belief: The Living Practices of Unitarian Universalism" with a dive into what we really mean when we say “everyone is worthy of love and belonging, without exception,” and how we got there as Unitarian Universalists.
Come for the questions that won't let you go. Stay for the living practice of our faith that emerges through the struggle.
Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink // July 6, 2025

Tell It Like It Is: Why I'm a Veteran in the Anti-War Movement

Allowing yourself to receive information that explodes nearly everything to which you’ve dedicated your life takes tremendous courage. Rev. Shawna Ambrose knew she had to do it, even though it meant letting go of a proudly held identity, a way of understanding the world, a mode of serving the greater good with pride, and connections with family and community. Witness Shawna’s story of military service transforming into a powerful commitment to the anti-war movement.  
June 29, 2025

Tell It Like It Is: Making Peace With My Christianity

Sometimes, life in religious community can feel like an experience of exile in the exact place where we most deeply yearn to belong.  Roger Butts, Unitarian Universalist minister, shares his own journey of coming to peace with his Christian background.  Telling of a journey through shame and alienation, Roger shares how he finally found a way to living with his heart wide open.
June 22, 2025

Tell It Like It Is: Deconstructing Toxic Evangelical Christianity

June 15, 2025

Tell It Like It Is: The Moment I Knew

There are moments that cleave our lives into before and after.
For some of us, those moments arrive gently, like dawn breaking slowly over familiar landscape. For others, they crash in like lightning—sudden, illuminating, impossible to unsee.
In this installment of our Tell It Like It Is series, Jamal Skinner, founder and Executive Director of the Fort Collins Cultural Enrichment Center, shares one of those lightning moments with us: the day he realized that teachers and people in authority were treating him differently because he's Black.
We know that undoing racism isn't just political work or social justice work—it's deeply spiritual work. It requires us to confront the lie that some people are worth more than others, to dismantle the systems that separate us from our fundamental interconnectedness. When we work to create spaces where every person can flourish in their full humanity, we're participating in the sacred act of building beloved community.
June 8, 2025