by Stacey Denny | Aug 23, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
I was looking at a replica of one of the earliest maps of North America not long ago and on that map, California appeared as an island. The first mention of California as an island was in the year 1510, so for the next 191 years California was rendered as an island on...
by Stacey Denny | Jul 27, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I have a cousin who ended up in the hospital a few months ago thinking he was going to die. Fortunately, he turned the corner, but there for a little while his mind was turned to his own mortality, so had a will drawn up, and phoned to ask if I would be...
by Stacey Denny | May 4, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I was up in Carmel last week giving a speech to a literary society for their spring banquet. It was a gorgeous spring day, so I drove there on the back roads, past farmers working their fields, with the redbuds and dogwoods in bloom and peonies popping up...
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...
by Stacey Denny | Sep 28, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO We are citizens of the universe…– Paul Kurtz of Free Inquiry I’ve been thinking about our new grandson, Miles Henry Gulley, now 26 days old. If he had been born in China, he would be almost 10 months old, since infants born there are dated from the date of...
