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haleyballast.bsky.social
PCUSA pastor of a small-but-mighty church in Seattle.
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More crocheting for the apocalypse.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I made my first blanket. Practicing for when I’m fired and exiled for speaking against the evil empire and have to clothe my family with only my bare hands. Hahaha! Haha. ha.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Gritty road win for my Trojans! #USCWBB

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I love my job.

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submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

YESSSSS! I needed this! #USCWBB #fUCLA

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Second half of this game has been much less fun to watch. #USCWBB

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

JuJu is on fire tonight!! 🔥 #USCWBB

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Distracting myself from both national and personal crises with USC women’s basketball. #fUCLA #FightOn

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Me when ICE shows up during worship i.redd.it/16guw8ts4fi7...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Today I am grateful for my friend Jeny Carlson, pastor of @northminsterpres.bsky.social, who invited me to spend the whole summer learning and preaching about (and against) White Christian Nationalism last year. I am re-listening to some of our sermons from that time and finding it encouraging.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

A blessing, for these days. From the Black Rock prayer book.

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

Seems to us that when empathy is called sin, we have completely lost any theology of grace. Christ's commandments were very clear; love God, love one another as God has loved us. Humans can't do either one without empathy.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I’m more of a North Face guy but this seems a bit extreme

submitted 38 days ago • 844 comments

My sermon is decidedly mid, but I did finish the other crochet fingerless glove!

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Another Saturday, another sermon revision after a week of muddling through study, prep, and writing. I really do love preaching, just not at this exact moment.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

child abuse begets authoritarians, who then see the world as a place where abuse is not only justified but necessary. that's why they keep using physical child abuse as metaphor!

submitted 40 days ago • 53 comments

Breathe. Embrace your free time. Pour into your community. Respect what you can't control. Reject nihilism. Remember pace and perspective. Burnout is the enemy and helps no one, least of all yourself, and should be stridently avoided. That's the only way we're gonna get through this. And we will.

submitted 42 days ago • 114 comments

First crochet project! ✅ Now to try to make its twin…

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

In light of the recent executive order about gender, I found these words from the #PCUSA LGBTQIA Advocacy Committee very heartening: "We affirm that transgender, non-binary, genderqueer, and intersex people’s lives embody the overflowing richness of God’s image into a diversity of expressions.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Look up the Declaration of Barmen. Read it. Read what happened to its authors. Remember many denominations have said this is central to their faith.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Last week sermon writing was a slog. I kept procrastinating and getting interrupted. Finally on Friday night I had enough words to call it good, and closed my laptop until Sunday. I was pleasantly surprised when I found a decent draft, cleaned it up, and preached it with my whole chest.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment