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 | Sep 7, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO My brother Glenn and his wife Laurie have retired and are traveling the world seeing the sights, last year Europe, this year the Wild West. Now they’re at a dude ranch in Wyoming, getting along with the little dogies, or whatever it is one does at a dude...
by Stacey Denny | Jun 29, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I was in Florida recently, speaking to elected officials. I went with some trepidation, fearing my speech would betray my progressive tendencies and I would be tarred and feathered, rode out of town on a rail, sent packing, choose your metaphor. Instead,...
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 | Dec 30, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I was recently over in the old meetinghouse, snooping around the meetingroom, imagining what it was like to have been there in 1892, 130 years ago, when it was built. Just as an aside, our old meetinghouse had a good run. According to architects, the...
