Tag Archives: Healing

What You Can Control

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

The Work That Is Theirs to Do by Joanna Fontaine Crawford And said, “That’s enough of that.” And the day came when finally they put down their burdens The moment was full of sorrow but also relief Arms exhausted from … Continue reading →

Posted in Sermons | Tagged Boundaries, Boundary, Caregivers, Caregiving, Communication, Control, Covenant, Families, Family, Family Systems, Healing, mental-health, Needs, Parenting, Parents, personal-growth, Relationships, Saying no, Self-Differentiation, Sermon, Sermons, Unitarian Universalism | Leave a comment

God is Trans (2023)

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Reading: Jesus At The Gay Bar by Jay Hulme Before images of God, I had white Jesus. Hung in a picture frame in my childhood home. You can see his perfectly groomed beard and goatee, his long brown hair with soft … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice, Sermons, Theology | Tagged BK Hipsher, Black Theology, Channing, Enfleshed, Feminism, Feminist Theology, gender, Genderqueer, God, Healing, Images of God, Imago Dei, Jesus, Likeness to God, Metaphors of God, Non-Binary, Theology, trans, transgender, Unitarian, Unitarianism | Leave a comment

The Gift of Memory (Dec 2022)

Posted on December 4, 2022 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Sometimes I think about my daughter’s childhood as a matter of three phases: We are now, perhaps obviously, in phase three. The annual nativity play at Foothills only became an annual tradition in my third year here, when Gracie was 10, but by … Continue reading →

Posted in Sermons | Tagged Bible, Christmas, Cole Arthur Riley, Collective, Community, Exodus, Healing, Holidays, identity, Memory, Past, Selfhood, Sermon, Sermons, Solstice | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Sermons, Theology | Tagged Atheism, Christianity, Construction, Covenant, Diversity, Healing, Jesus, Past, Religion, Religious, Sermon, Sermons, Theology | Leave a comment

Our Ghost Stories

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

From about third grade until about eight grade, I spent a week each summer at Camp David Jr. on Lake Crescent in Washington State. I loved everything about camp,especially canoeing on the clear lake, and the camp fire stories and songs … Continue reading →

Posted in Sermons | Tagged Family, Fear, Ghosts, Grief, Haunted, Haunting, Heal, Healing, History, Loss, Memory, Past, Recover, Recovery, Regret, Remorse, Sermon, Sermons, Tragedy, Transformation | Leave a comment

The Cullor Covenant

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

This pandemic season has been challenging for so many of us, in really significant and serious ways, and also in some small yet persistently annoying ways. I have a confession that’s more in the latter category to share with you. Which … Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy of Church, Sermons | Tagged Church, Collective Action, Collective Change, Community, Covenant, Economic Justice, Equality, Essential, Healing, Inequality, Liberation, Money, Sermon, Sermons, Shame, Stewardship, Taboo | Leave a comment

Birth the Alien, Set the Bird Free

Posted on September 27, 2021 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

A message for the 10:00 Foothills community, preached in the park on September 26th and October 3rd, 2021, the first and second Sundays in person after 18 months all online Reading: Bluebird by Charles Bukowski Sermon We were two days … Continue reading →

Posted in Sermons | Tagged Change, Coping, COVID, Healing, Learning, Pain, pandemic, Resilience, Sermon, Sermons, Survival, Transformation | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Sermons | Tagged Change, Closing, Closure, Community, COVID, Freedom, Gathering, Healing, Normal, pandemic, Pause, Priya Parker, Real, Reality, Revelation, Sermon, Sermons, Slow, Social Change, Story, Transformation, Trauma | Leave a comment

Love That Stays

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

“You can love someone, and fail them.” Louis offers this explanation to his lover, Prior, as he is trying to tell him that he is moving out. “You can love someone, and fail them,” Louis tells him, “and I love … Continue reading →

Posted in Sermons, Theology | Tagged Angels in America, Clean Pain, Commitment, Courageous Love, Dirty Pain, Discomfort, Fear, Heal, Healing, Heartbreak, Love, Pain, Parker Palmer, Persistence, Resmaa Menakem, Sacrifice, Sermon, Sermons, Stubborn, Suffering, Theology, Tough Love | Leave a comment

The Moment of Magic (What We Expect in December)

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Part 1 Around this time of year, for most of my life, my family members would make a bet with each other. The bet was about if I’d get sick for my birthday, or for Christmas. They are just … Continue reading →

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