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 | 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 | Nov 19, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO In preparation for this week’s message, I was reading a list put out by the Recording Industry Association of America called The Songs of the Century, and noticed, perched at #5, Don McLlean’s song “American Pie,” which debuted in 1971 when I...
by Stacey Denny | Oct 22, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO We’ve had quite the little kerfuffle in Danville this past week. Some teenage boys in our town have adorned their cars with loud mufflers and have been racing up and down the streets of our town, agitating the populace. Sociologists have labelled today’s...
by Stacey Denny | Sep 23, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages
We deplore efforts to denigrate human intelligence. – Paul Kurtz Sometimes I’ll ask a child their favorite day of the year. Number one is always Christmas. Always. Number two is their birthday. And number three is almost always the last day of school. I feel so sorry...
