Tag Archives: Diversity

Good Walls: Boundaries as Acts of Love

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Reading: From Prentis Hemphill, On Boundaries For me, there is a big love [that exists regardless of me]. [Which means,] there are people I have boundaries with that I’m like, “I don’t know if I love you but there’s a big … Continue reading →

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Recognition / Seen – Easter 2023

Posted on April 9, 2023 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Reading: Luke 24:12-32 Sermon My best friend from high school reached out to me last week. We’ve stayed in touch loosely over the years over Facebook, but not in any consistent way. She was in our home town for the … Continue reading →

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Community in Diversity

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

(This sermon is an update of a few different sermons I’ve offered in the past, including this one) Reading: The Purpose of the Church Sermon: Community in Diversity In the late 1990s, and the early 2000s, Bishop Carlton Pearson experienced … Continue reading →

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Outgrow Your Ghosts

Posted on November 22, 2021 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Listen to this sermon and one of my favorite conversations I’ve had in a while – with my colleague Sean Neil Barron on the Foothills Deeper Podcast. Reading: The S-I-Z-E of Your Soul Sermon: Outgrow Your Ghosts In second grade, … Continue reading →

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The Limits of Diversity: A conversation with Activist Florence Field

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

In the spring of 2020, as I was wrapping up a conversation with Foothills member Lynn Young about growing up during world war 2, when she told me that I should see if I could talk with one of her friends, … Continue reading →

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Accepting Life’s Complexity

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

My partner and I were doing our usual Sunday morning anxious search for a parking space – hoping we could still sneak in during the chalice lighting rather than the more disruptive space of the meditation when we realized that there was … Continue reading →

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Factions We Love

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Reading: from Resistance by Barry Lopez [Sometimes I dimly recall the days] when I felt, like many others, that my life served no purpose. Do you remember any such days? It was as though we all lived in tunnels then, … Continue reading →

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The Gifts of A/theism

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

This sermon was offered in two parts, starting with…. Part 1: The Gifts of Atheism I don’t remember precisely when things started to fall apart, but we should probably blame feminism. Or the arts….definitely the gays. I’d been a dedicated … Continue reading →

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Preaching in the Context of Diversity

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Next Tuesday, as a part of a conference at the Iliff School of Theology, I will sit on a panel about Preaching in the Context of Diversity. We’re covering the topic in three ways: rhetorically, liturgically, and biblically. I’m responsible for the … Continue reading →

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Right and Risk in the Big Top – Candidating Sermon 1, Nov 8, 2015.

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Listen to this sermon here. Right and Risk in the Big Top You might have heard it said that there are no atheists in foxholes. It’s an incredibly simplistic and somewhat insulting way of speaking to the experience of coming face … Continue reading →

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