How to Die Before You’re Dead (2)

by Stacey Denny | Oct 30, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO   It is good to be back with you. Last week, you’ll remember, was our Sunday for unprogrammed worship, which, since time immemorial, has been held on the fifth Sunday, four times a year. But the elders decided to have it last Sunday, the third Sunday,...

Stuff I Want to Do Before I Croak: A Geezer’s Manifesto (9)  

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO  We had a wonderful Christmas. I am the proud owner of a new shirt and a book on architecture, given to me by our younger son, Sam, and his wife, Kelsea. I’m like George Costanza, in my dream life I’ve wanted to be an architect, designing lovely places for...

What Does It Mean to Be Spiritual? (1)

by Stacey Denny | Feb 11, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO  Have you ever noticed that as you age your mind returns to distant moments in your life, events that seemed unimportant at the time, but when viewed in retrospect take on significance? Perhaps it was the first time you met your spouse. When my mother was...

Is Religion a Force for Good or Evil? (2)

by Stacey Denny | Aug 21, 2021 | GraceTalk Messages

It is good to be back with you. I spent last weekend riding motorcycles with the Quaker Oatlaws Motorcycle Club and ended up at the Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home in Lincoln City, Indiana, where the accomplishments of President Lincoln were on full display. When we...

The Missing Fruits (Positive Anticipation)

by Stacey Denny | Mar 1, 2019 | GraceTalk Messages

I met Joan in the summer of 1982, when she was working as an intern at Public Service Indiana, and living catty-corner from me. Not realizing she was destined to marry me, she was dating someone else, an oversight we corrected just in time for me to be invited to her...