by Stacey Denny | Jul 8, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages
Several years ago, a man I know was told he was dying, which of course we all are, but his death was sooner than he had anticipated. Though well-off, he’d always been miserly, to the frustration of his wife who wanted them to travel and see things and visit their...
by Stacey Denny | Sep 17, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I attended a Quaker conference this past spring where one of the event’s sponsors, a non-Quaker wanting to sell us insurance, started listing all the good things Quakers had done over the years—the antislavery work, the work for women’s equality, our...
by Stacey Denny | Apr 1, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
Back when I was 16, and the Catholics traded me to the Quakers for two draft picks yet to be announced, I had to learn a whole new way of doing church. Out went the male-only leadership and obeying them always, in came Quaker women on a mission from God and staying...
by Stacey Denny | Nov 19, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO In preparation for this week’s message, I was reading a list put out by the Recording Industry Association of America called The Songs of the Century, and noticed, perched at #5, Don McLlean’s song “American Pie,” which debuted in 1971 when I...
by Stacey Denny | Sep 23, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
We deplore efforts to denigrate human intelligence. – Paul Kurtz Sometimes I’ll ask a child their favorite day of the year. Number one is always Christmas. Always. Number two is their birthday. And number three is almost always the last day of school. I feel so sorry...
