Cooperation, not Competition, as an Aspect of Community

by Stacey Denny | Mar 26, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

I was being a curmudgeon the other day, talking with someone about how young people today don’t know anything about history, when it occurred to me that until I was 30 or so, the only thing I knew about World War II was what I learned from watching Hogan’s Heroes. A...

Finding Our Way (5)

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...

Stuff I Want to Do Before I Croak: A Geezer’s Manifesto (9)  

by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO  We had a wonderful Christmas. I am the proud owner of a new shirt and a book on architecture, given to me by our younger son, Sam, and his wife, Kelsea. I’m like George Costanza, in my dream life I’ve wanted to be an architect, designing lovely places for...

You Might Be a Humanist If… (4) 

by Stacey Denny | Sep 16, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO  “We affirm humanism as a realistic alternative to theologies of despair and ideologies of violence and as a source of rich personal significance and genuine satisfaction in the service to others.” – Paul Kurtz of Free Inquiry Whenever we go to the farm, we...

What Does It Mean to Be Spiritual? (5)

by Stacey Denny | Apr 2, 2022 | GraceTalk Messages

VIEW VIDEO  I have a friend I’ve known about 10 years. I only see him once a year when he returns to the area. I met him at a talk I was giving, but then he moved shortly afterwards, and we’ve managed to stay in touch through email and the occasional phone call. Once...