Tiny Shifts

Strong Tree Meditation | Foothills Family Ministry | April 18, 2021

Take a moment to ground yourself with this all-ages strong tree meditation from Foothills Family Ministry.

Homily Part Two: How We Talk About the Future | Rev. Gretchen Haley | April 18, 2021

Rev. Gretchen frames our present culture of death and violence as a spiritual crisis and draws on lessons from the forest to teach us how we might reorient ourselves in service to the world and remember that "all of us need all of us to make it."

Homily Part One: Tree/Truth | Rev. Gretchen Haley | April 18, 2021

Rev. Gretchen draws on The Overstory by Richard Powers and her Pacific Northwest childhood in a family of loggers and mill workers to explore how trees humble us and how we must remember to see the bigger story, especially when we find ourselves in disagreement with others.

Homily: Kindred Voices: Holding Each Other Up | Melanie DeMore | April 11, 2021

Melanie blends storytelling and song as she teaches us to develop our personal "Melodic Medicine Kit" - songs we can call on when we're struggling.

Homily Part 2: From Grief to Morning | Rev. Gretchen Haley | April 4, 2021

Rev. Gretchen invites us to reckon with truth and contradictions in stories. She examines where our profound human need to seek patterns - even where none exist - can become dangerous and explores the importance of intentionally moving from our individual stories into the collective story in a way that embraces diverse experiences.

Homily Part 1: From Trembling to Telling | Rev. Gretchen Haley | April 4, 2021

Rev. Gretchen draws on the story of Easter and the history of the 1918 pandemic to illustrate the importance of telling our stories even when our impulse is to try to forget and just move on.

Homily: Tough Love Imagines Part Two | Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink | March 28, 2021

Rev. Elaine honors the start of Passover and draws on the story of the ancient Israelites' escape from enslavement to explore how imagining what may seem impossible can lead to real liberation. She shares how this moment - as we begin emerging from the pandemic - is the time to imagine a new beginning in which we can move toward collective liberation and planetary healing.

Homily: Tough Love Imagines Part One | Rev. Elaine Aron-Tenbrink | March 28, 2021

Rev. Elaine explores how imagination asks us to loosen our grip on the illusion of control, step into the unknown and, how, in turn, imagination lays the ground for transformation and liberation because it helps us be co-creators of our future.