The Foothills Deeper Pod
Episodes

Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Rev. Gretchen offers a reading from “The Seven of Pentacles” by Marge Piercy.

Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Rev. Elaine announces our new Text-A-Blessing hotline and shares her KINDemic story.

Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink offers a guided meditation to cultivate self-compassion. This meditation is adapted from the work of Dr. Kristin Neff, who is a scholar on the topic of self-compassion.

Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Rev. Elaine explores how to access kindness in the face of fatigue and frustration. She shares the simple power of offering a blessing as a gift of attention and acknowledgment - a gift you are worthy of offering to yourself as well as others.

Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Dr. Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, and Rev. Sean Neil-Barron discuss the relationship between our religion and the American progressive tradition. They explore how people rise up seeking to come to terms with America’s white supremacist and colonialist legacies, and how the current trend of increasing economic inequality affects progressivism across religion and politics.

Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Dr. Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, and Rev. Sean Neil-Barron discuss the relationship between our religion and the American progressive tradition. They explore how people rise up seeking to come to terms with America’s white supremacist and colonialist legacies, and how the current trend of increasing economic inequality affects progressivism across religion and politics.

Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Rev. Sean Neil-Barron invites us to consider what faith and trust guide us when we struggle to see beyond political whims - when we struggle to see the long arc of history bending toward justice. Rev. Sean encourages us to awaken courage and break free from the seduction of sameness. He encourages us to keep faith that this day could be something different - to keep faith that we can be a part of true transformation.

Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink leads us in a centering and connecting meditation. Rev. Christopher Watkins Lamb enhances the meditation with music.