July 26, 2020
On Rev. Kristen Psaki’s last worship service with Foothills Unitarian Church, she offers this two-part reflection on the lessons and insights she has learned at our congregation and how we changed her and each other.
June 14, 2020
Rev. Kristen gets specific in the call for “backyard practices for courageous love.” Starting with a conversation with her literal neighbors around race, and then with a few fun role plays with her partner. Check it out - and share!
June 7, 2020
In this homily, Rev. Kristen connects the story of Flower Communion to the movement for Black Lives, and our movement for collective liberation
She writes: “This season of flower communion recommits us to honoring the beauty of Life, the beauty of Black life, the beauty of Brown life, the beauty that moves within, between and among us - calling us - nudging us through our senses - to remember. To remember the inherent worth and beauty of every person. To remember - to see and to know, to name and to celebrate our differences. To remember our connectedness - our interdependence - - and the complicated and essential truth that none of us are free until all of us are free.”
December 1, 2019
The spiritual practice for the series Slow Down.
September 29, 2019
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
September 8, 2019
Kristen Psaki preaches on "I'm Too Busy... to Make It Personal."
August 11, 2019
We seek elusive answers to the questions of this life.
We seek to put an end to all the waste of human strife.
We search for truth, equality, and blessed peace of mind.
And then, we come together here,
to make sense of what we find.
And we believe in life, and in the strength of love,
and we have found a joy being together.
And in our search for peace, maybe we’ll finally see:
even to question, truly is an answer.
“We Laugh, We Cry” - Singing the Living Tradition #354
August 4, 2019
"But the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends. The type of love that I stress here is not eros, a sort of esthetic or romantic love; not philia, a sort of reciprocal love between personal friends; but it is agape which is understanding goodwill for all. It is an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return. It is the love of God working in the lives of [people]. This is the love that may well be the salvation of our civilization." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
July 7, 2019
This service kicks off the "No Stupid Questions" series.
June 30, 2019
"But I heard you singing in four-part harmony
that everyone,
everyone,
is beautiful.
And I hoped that everyone included me."
- Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn Howard from The Invisible Woman
May 5, 2019
"Drink in beauty. Pleasure is a practice. Practice pleasure like your life depends on it." - Alana Devich Cyril
March 24, 2019
Over and over we break
open, we break and
we break and we open.
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
