Rev. Haley Ballast
@haleyballast.bsky.social
PCUSA pastor of a small-but-mighty church in Seattle.
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Happy first female Archbishop of Canterbury to all who observe 🙏🏻
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Happy first female Archbishop of Canterbury to all who observe 🙏🏻
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I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…
September 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I feel like news publications should put more energy into asking autistic people how they feel about all this because…
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⭐Click the link to revisit the 2024 article about how these churches are confronting Christian nationalism.⭐
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August 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
⭐Click the link to revisit the 2024 article about how these churches are confronting Christian nationalism.⭐
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🔗 buff.ly/zXDZR7H
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On Sunday, Presbyterian Outlook Editor and Publisher Teri McDowell Ott visited Seattle, Washington, to participate in a joint worship service between Wallingford Presbyterian Church, Northminster Presbyterian Church and Woodland Park Presbyterian Church.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
On Sunday, Presbyterian Outlook Editor and Publisher Teri McDowell Ott visited Seattle, Washington, to participate in a joint worship service between Wallingford Presbyterian Church, Northminster Presbyterian Church and Woodland Park Presbyterian Church.
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Putting the finishing touches on this little sunsuit! Now I just need a chubby toddler… I intended to make it for a 6 month old baby but used a larger needle and accidentally made something closer to 2T. #crochet
July 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Putting the finishing touches on this little sunsuit! Now I just need a chubby toddler… I intended to make it for a 6 month old baby but used a larger needle and accidentally made something closer to 2T. #crochet
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i know this may be difficult to understand... but
people without housing are not missing the loaf of the Gospel
They are missing a house
people without housing are not missing the loaf of the Gospel
They are missing a house
July 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
i know this may be difficult to understand... but
people without housing are not missing the loaf of the Gospel
They are missing a house
people without housing are not missing the loaf of the Gospel
They are missing a house
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Having big feelings about broken glass … but not broken families… is abnormal
June 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Having big feelings about broken glass … but not broken families… is abnormal
Largest crochet project to date!
March 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Largest crochet project to date!
More crocheting for the apocalypse.
February 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
More crocheting for the apocalypse.
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.
February 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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.
I love my job.
February 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I love my job.
February 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Me when ICE shows up during worship i.redd.it/16guw8ts4fi7...
February 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Me when ICE shows up during worship i.redd.it/16guw8ts4fi7...
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.
January 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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.
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A blessing, for these days. From the Black Rock prayer book.
January 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A blessing, for these days. From the Black Rock prayer book.
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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.
January 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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.
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I’m more of a North Face guy but this seems a bit extreme
January 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I’m more of a North Face guy but this seems a bit extreme
My sermon is decidedly mid, but I did finish the other crochet fingerless glove!
January 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
My sermon is decidedly mid, but I did finish the other crochet fingerless glove!
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.
January 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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.
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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!
Mel Gibson: I’m glad Trump is here. It’s like daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off
January 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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!