Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (7)

How to Die Before You’re Dead (4) 

by | Nov 17, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO  When I was 6 years-old, my great-uncle Fritz died and I wanted to go to his funeral, not because I was especially fond of him, I barely knew him, but because I’d never seen a dead person, except in the movies. My brother Glenn, the veteran of several...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (7)

Finding Our Way (9)

by | Oct 2, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO  I went with two of my siblings and my cousin to southern Illinois last weekend to revisit the haunts from our childhood. Most of the people we visited as children are now deceased, inhabiting various graveyards in Franklin County, Illinois, so much of our...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (7)

Finding Our Way (8)

by | Sep 17, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO  I attended a Quaker conference this past spring where one of the event’s sponsors, a non-Quaker wanting to sell us insurance, started listing all the good things Quakers had done over the years—the antislavery work, the work for women’s equality, our...