Tag Archives: Gathering

Gather in Storms

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Reading – a combination of Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s 2022 and 2023 Hanukah reflections, which end with this reflection Hanukah isn’t just about what happened in the past, on the calendar. It’s about who we are capable of being. It’s about … Continue reading →

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Gather in Joy – a sermon for our first Sunday in our new sanctuary

Posted on December 4, 2023 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Can you believe it?! I never doubted we would get here, really, but we have been talking about needing a bigger sanctuary since I started at Foothills 11 years ago, and that conversation had been going on long before I … Continue reading →

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Shall We Gather at the River?

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

It was an oppressively hot July morning in 1864 when Pastor Robert Lowry wrote what would become the popular hymn, Shall We Gather at the River. In those days, talk of a civil war was not a threat made on a … Continue reading →

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Real Life in Re-Entry

Posted on June 20, 2021 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

In the days and years and centuries of the “before times,” generation after generation of enslaved Black people learned to be careful when they sang about freedom.     We mean freedom in the next life, not this one – they’d say regularly, just … Continue reading →

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