by Stacey Denny | Apr 20, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages
Some time ago, I wrote an essay about the abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. It got published and circulated around, and made its way back to Danville, to the Catholic Church where I had been raised. I knew that was likely to happen and had girded my loins, as the...
by Stacey Denny | Oct 2, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I went with two of my siblings and my cousin to southern Illinois last weekend to revisit the haunts from our childhood. Most of the people we visited as children are now deceased, inhabiting various graveyards in Franklin County, Illinois, so much of our...
by Stacey Denny | Jul 19, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I was chatting with a fellow pastor this week who recently experienced a great tragedy in his work as a minister. He had phoned wanting to talk and I could tell by the tone of his voice that something had gone dramatically wrong. “You don’t sound good,” I...
by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO The year I turned 21, the television show Cheers aired on NBC. I was working at Public Service Indiana and several of my co-workers wanted to take me to a bar. I had only been in one bar my entire life, the Green Lantern in Danville, when I was 8 or 9 and...
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...
