Rev. Sally Steele
Ordained Minister • M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Prophetic truth held in pastoral warmth. Sermons that challenge and comfort.
"Do not ask people to shrink to fit the sanctuary. Ask how the sanctuary must stretch."
— From Breaking Bread
Sally Steele has spent her career building spaces where people who've been told they don't belong can finally exhale. Her preaching invites transformation and deeper connection.
Read Sally's Story“We are not perfect clay, but we are clay that God refuses to throw away.”
Sally's sermons challenge comfortable assumptions and invite us into deeper belonging. Churches invite her back for her prophetic truth held in pastoral warmth.
What if belonging meant never having to hold half of yourself back? Sally explores how early church debates about who belongs speak directly to our questions today.
“Do not ask people to shrink to fit the sanctuary. Ask how the sanctuary must stretch until every child of God stands inside breathing with both lungs.”
Drawing on MLK's 'The Strength to Love,' Sally offers a framework for moral courage that meets congregations where they are.
“We don't need unlimited courage. We just need enough for today's choices.”
Whether your community needs a voice for Advent, Black History Month, Pride, or any Sunday in between—Sally brings preaching that invites deeper belonging.
Acts 15, John 17, Luke 10
Who gets to belong here? Sally explores how the church can become a place where no one is asked to shrink to fit.
Exodus 1-2, Leviticus 25, Habakkuk 3
What does it mean to birth freedom in impossible circumstances? Scripture read through liberation theology.
Luke 4, Romans 12, Mark 11
We don't need unlimited courage. Just enough for today's choices. Sally helps congregations speak truth even when it costs, grounded in the prophetic tradition from Jesus to MLK.
Hagar, Bathsheba, Mary & Elizabeth
The Miriam's Song series centering women pushed to the margins of their own stories.
Ephesians 1, Jeremiah 18, 1 John 3
We are clay that God refuses to throw away. The good news that God acts first.
Isaiah 58, James 5, Leviticus 25
How we treat people reflects our relationship with God. Faith and action integrated.