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...
by Stacey Denny | Mar 6, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages
When I was 32 years old, I received a phone call from the Friends World Committee for Consultation, asking if I would serve on their Executive Committee. This was a big deal in Quakerism, like being asked to serve on the college of cardinals and pick a new pope. I was...
by Stacey Denny | Feb 16, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO Before I became your pastor some 23 years ago, back when I had hair and was full of the vigor of youth, I pastored Irvington Friends Meeting up in the city. The meeting was begun in the early 1950’s in the basement of a bank, then in 1957 built a lovely...
by Stacey Denny | May 9, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I was talking with a man not long ago who learned during our conversation that I was a Quaker minister. He said, “I used to be a pastor.” I asked him how long he had served as a pastor and he said, “Well, it was a long time ago, and I only lasted three...
by Stacey Denny | Nov 24, 2020 | GraceTalk Messages
They fixed the sign at the Royal Theater in Danville last week. Two men took the sign apart, replaced the wood structure holding it together, then reassembled it, and when they were done, the theater owner came out and put up the letters announcing this week’s...
