Tag Archives: Power

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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Queer More Than Memory (or, the closets made from the words we didn’t yet have)

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

This post is a companion piece to a post I wrote in February 2015, “A Conversation Begins with a Lie…” Like a lot of moments in my life, I recently realized something important while listening to the Indigo Girls.   Carri … Continue reading →

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The Power of How We Dress: Introducing the Drag King Pastors

Posted on May 9, 2021 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

The first big fight I had with my parents when I was in college was not – despite what you might think – when I told them I was switching majors from math to theatre.   For that, they were more….trying … Continue reading →

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Inefficiently Yours

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Reading: Wendell Berry’s Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front  Sermon: Inefficiently Yours  Every day this week, I had at least one package on my front porch when I got home.  Every day.  At least one.  Not all of them were from … Continue reading →

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Limitless Light: A Hanukkah Reflection

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

The story of Hanukkah – like the story of Christmas – has never felt more necessary or relevant for our times. It is, as many of the stories of the Talmud, not necessarily a story that happened historically exactly as … Continue reading →

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