Dear Ones, Starting Sunday, April 2nd, we will strongly encourage but not require masks at Sunday services. While much of our broader culture abandoned universal masking long ago, we have taken a slower, more cautious approach. In discerning our masking policy, we centered the values of our faith that call us to protect one another, especially […]
Series Invitation: Terms of Service March 2023
A big part of my work is asking people to help with some job or another. To help with greeting on Sundays, to reach out to newcomers, to serve on one of justice teams, to bring dinner for Faith Family Hospitality, or to serve on the Board….just to name a few! I usually try to […]
How to participate in the 2022 Auction!
The Auction is one of Foothills’ essential fundraisers (and one of our most fun events of the year!) Here’s how to participate: Step One: Map Out Your Strategy! Go to foothillsuu.org/onlineauction to steer through our many generous, creative donations from local businesses and your fellow Foothills folks. Registering to participate in the Online Auction is simple – you don’t need […]
Celebrating Rev. Christopher Lamb’s Affiliation as a Community Minister
As a faith tradition, Unitarian Universalists are congregationalists – as in we gather in covenant in individual and interdependent congregations each with the unique right to call and ordain our own ministers. Except that we know the need for ministry and for Unitarian Universalism extends beyond the congregation out into the wider community. Ministry is […]
Your Guide to Fall at Foothills!
With the return to school, pumpkin spice showing up on shelves and water communion around the corner, it’s clear – Fall is almost here! As we settle into new routines, it’s so important to be grounded in community and to carve out time for reflection and centering. Find four steps to make church […]
The Foothills Storytelling Project
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Roe v. Wade: What we can do
I want to get involved! Dear ones, We were both born after Roe, and we both realized today that one of our first real pathways to understand what abortion meant, especially what life was like before legal abortions, was the movie Dirty Dancing. In both our families, the movie was scandalous – both because of […]
Why we’re sticking with universal masking
Daily case numbers for COVID have dropped dramatically since their peak in the winter. Hospitals are not overcrowded in near the ways they have been. Between the number of people who have had COVID in recent months and the numbers who have been vaccinated and boostered, there is quite a bit of immunity in our […]
Plans for MLK Weekend: ‘Visiting’ Milwaukee & Marching Together
In this moment, I know that many of you are navigating either COVID exposures, have a family member sick, or are yourselves sick. And others of you are medical staff and school staff who are being asked to give so much right now – too much. Please know that you are not alone, and please don’t […]
Convince Them You’re Right, and other ways to (not) fix broken relationships
There was a stretch of about five years when my partner and I would make every New Year’s resolution a commitment that this would be the year when we would make new friends. Having moved to Fort Collins after living in Denver for nearly fifteen years, with two young and busy kids, as well as […]