by Stacey Denny | Jul 6, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO Mike Goss and I rode our motorcycles up north to Quaker Haven Camp last week, nestled on the shores of Dewart Lake in Kosciusko County, which is itself named for the Polish general Tadeusz Kościuszko, who came to the aid of our nation during the...
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 | Jun 16, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
After my parents passed away, my brother David gathered all the family pictures together, divvied them up into five separate piles, based on the sibling featured in the photograph. My sister received the biggest stack of pictures, being the first child, and my brother...
by Stacey Denny | Jun 9, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO We had high school graduation last weekend in our town, outside on the football field. A tradition we began during Covid, when we were social distancing, and it turned out to be more pleasant than cramming hundreds of people in a stifling hot gymnasium, so...
by Stacey Denny | May 27, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO Well, I was in Dallas this past week to speak to a pastor’s conference and according to a sign I saw on the way from the airport to the event, the world is ending any day now. The sign said Jesus is coming back. The sign didn’t say where he had been, but...
by Stacey Denny | May 17, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I remember, this was 30 some years ago when I was pastoring up in the city, we were approaching Mother’s Day and a woman approached me and said, “I hope on Mother’s Day, you don’t talk about how wonderful mothers are, because mine wasn’t. My mother was...
by Stacey Denny | May 12, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO It is good to be back. I was at a Quaker pastor’s retreat this week, then last weekend Joan and I went to the farmhouse to work outside, cleaning away the dross of winter, picking up fallen sticks, raking the flower beds, mowing and weed-whipping, sweeping...
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 | May 4, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO I was at a weeklong conference up north about fifteen or so years ago. One morning after I spoke, I was chatting with folks, shaking hands, that kind of thing, when I was approached by three women, who asked if I would meet with them privately that...
by Stacey Denny | May 4, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO Americans are a curious lot. I was eating lunch at Frank’s Place this week. I go there for my continuing education. There is much to be learned by listening to the conversations around you. When I was there this week, I was eavesdropping on the table next...
