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Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

by Stacey Denny | Aug 12, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

I was down in southern Indiana a while back, riding motorcycles with my friend Dave, the newest member of the Quaker Oatlaws Motorcycle Club. We stopped for lunch in New Boston, then decided to head further south to ride on the Ohio River Scenic Byway, a curvy,...
Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

Things We Got Just Right (Equality Over Cultural Norms)

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...
Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

Things We got Just Right (Our Insistence on Equality)

by Stacey Denny | Jun 10, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

I got the notice this week that my high school graduating class is planning our 45th year reunion, which I was looking forward to, but now am not, due to the confirmed presence of a narcissistic man who spent our twelve years together bullying our most vulnerable...
Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

What In the World Were We Thinking? (A Distrust of Leaders)

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...
Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

Quaker Qualities (Not Just Integrity, but Integration)

by Stacey Denny | Mar 14, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

Several years ago, Joan and I were in Frostburg, Maryland, attending the sessions of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. For those of you not accustomed to our Quaker jargon, a yearly meeting is a collection or assemblage of local or monthly meetings, usually in the same...
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