by Karen Marcus, Foothills Blogger Many who started attending Foothills after the 2016 election have found reasons to stay. The 2016 U.S. presidential election was shocking for many people — locally, nationally, and globally. Those who were confused, frightened, or angered by its outcome sought comfort, guidance, community, and hope. In and around Fort Collins, […]
An Exegesis of the Reading from James Luther Adams
There was a version of the sermon on Sunday that included a full exegesis of James Luther Adams’ reading…but as you heard – or you’ll hear in the podcast – that version wasn’t the version that made it to the service. Too much else I wanted to say…. But, I know JLA is dense, and […]
Meet Cartoonist Ward Sutton, Recently Honored Foothills Member
Interviewed by Jane Everham (Supplemental information from The Herb Block Foundation) Ward Sutton has been named the winner of the 2018 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. The Herblock Prize is awarded annually by The Herb Block Foundation for “distinguished examples of editorial cartooning that exemplify the courageous independent standard set by Herblock.” Ward Sutton will […]
Why I’m Grateful We Won’t Be Sponsoring a Black Lives Matter Event This Weekend
It started the way that so many Unitarian Universalist actions start: with a question. One of our members asked on a progressive social media site, why there had not been any response in Fort Collins to the most recent shooting death of a Black man by police officers – in this case, Stephon Clark in […]
Foothills Students Add Their Voices to National Outcry for Stricter Gun Control
by Karen Marcus, Foothills Blogger “Children are dying who could have been future leaders, scientists, or doctors.” —Cameron Montague, Sophomore at Poudre High School Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands or people participated across the U.S. and internationally in “March for Our Lives” protests to demand stricter gun laws in America. These events were spurred […]
Showing Up for Democracy: The Women’s March
from Foothills Blogger, Jane Everham Brian and I attended the first March in 2017 where the organizers hoped for 20,000 attendees – they got 100,000 instead! This delayed the march as the logistics were re-worked, but the standing around with like-minded strangers gave us hope and good cheer. The 2nd Annual Women’s March took place […]
Progress Is Possible
from Foothills Blogger, Jane Everham “It is possible to make progress.” said Rev. Nathan Woodliff-Stanley, Executive Director of Colorado’s American Civil Liberties Union and Unitarian Universalist Minister during his guest sermon last Sunday. Rev. Nathan used two stories to illustrate his point. The first story was about the exertion required in the ground-breaking effort to […]
Reflections on the 7th UU Principle
By Karen Marcus This post —one in a series about the 7 UU principles — explores the 7th one, “Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” The “interdependent web of existence” is an abstract concept and, therefore, one that applies to many aspects of life. I asked several […]
No Room at the Inn?
Images of Mary and Joseph haunt me. Not the ones you find in most churches mind you, those ones that get commissioned to be placed in stained glass that feature the immaculately white and pure Mary looking all European and very definitely not pregnant or Palestinian. No, the images that haunt me this time […]
One year later
A year ago right now, we were preparing for election day. I woke up and put on a white shirt, and helped my daughter find a white shirt, we took a selfie together – we were planning for an historical outcome in the national election. It wasn’t that I thought it was a foregone conclusion […]