Tag Archives: Resistance

Goodness Beyond the Good Life

Posted on November 20, 2023 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Reading: Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, by Wendell Berry Last Sunday, I told you about sitting down with the Rabbi from Har Shalom, and how the first people to call her after the Hamas attack were Christian Evangelicals. What … Continue reading →

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Church as Countercultural Practice

Posted on November 19, 2023 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with Rabbi Finestone, who serves Congregation Har Shalom, just down the road. We were speaking about the attack on October 7th, and what her community has been feeling since.  She shared many things … Continue reading →

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Shallots, a Sabbatical Story

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

At a certain point in the summer, I realized that I’d peeled, and sliced, and cooked up more shallots in the past few months than I’d probably cooked in my whole life.  Shallots are, I decided, one funny but true … Continue reading →

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Harden Not Your Heart

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Audio Podcast available here.   MLK Service 1/15/17 “Harden Not Your Heart” You might remember a few weeks ago I spoke about my momentary anxiety around how you all would react to the signs that we put out on Drake. … Continue reading →

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Nothing Simple in a Simple Summer

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Our monthly theme at Foothills is “Simplicity,” which makes a certain kind of sense.  We imagine the summertime to have an inherently slower pace, a casual ease, with an abundance of backyard barbecues, long mountain hikes, and weeks of vacation adventures … Continue reading →

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Human Community and Holy Texts

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

A sermon offered at the Foothills Unitarian Church, January 31, 2016  Listen to the audio of this sermon here.  (contains quite a bit of extra text not included here…)  It is the last Sunday of January, which means it is … Continue reading →

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Beloved Community of Resistance

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

Sermon for Worship Service, Sunday January 3, 2016 Reading – “My Life as a Protest,” by Thomas Merton “It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and … Continue reading →

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Intentions for the New Year

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

While I am a little skeptical about the wisdom or efficacy of new year’s resolutions, I am a fan of what seems to be a new trend for setting new year’s intentions.  Though not technically all that different than a resolution, an intention … Continue reading →

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Expectations, and Resistance

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Rev. Gretchen Haley

There are things I wish I didn’t expect.  Like, this not being the last time that news of a heavily-armed man taking aim at a vulnerable group of people, injuring many, killing a few, breaks through an otherwise joy-filled day … Continue reading →

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