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Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (9)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

When I became an intentional Christian, as opposed to a Christin who was dragged kicking and screaming to church by my mother, I decided to read the Bible. I did that for several years, because a man I knew told me the government would confiscate all the Bibles, which...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (8)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

I’ve been thinking about Georgie Baker, who last week shared the happy news that she was wrapping up her degree in social work. Georgie was two-years-old when we first met. She would come to meeting with her grandparents, Ralph and Gan, and when the other children...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (7)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

Well, what a good Thanksgiving we had. It might be my favorite holiday. I like the constancy of Thanksgiving, the timelessness. Thanksgiving in 2024 feels like it felt when I was a kid in the 1960s, the same menu, some of the same people, the same conversations, and...

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (4)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

Our gratitude to Mike Goss for bringing the message last week. I was at our farm in Paoli and Jackson was down with Covid in Richmond, after attending a Quaker pastor’s conference at Quaker Haven, which I was supposed to attend but couldn’t because of a funeral....

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (1)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 19, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

My friend Jim Mulholland grew up in Greenville, Illinois, where his father taught philosophy at Greenville College. And his father before him. So Jim was steeped in the deep waters of academia, which I realized when I first met him in seminary. A group of us were...