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Things We Got Just Right (We Value Experience Over Belief)

Things We Got Just Right (We Value Experience Over Belief)

by Stacey Denny | Jun 24, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

This happened maybe 30 years ago, when I attended a conference for Quaker pastors down in Orlando. Someone had the bright idea to get all the Quaker pastors in America together and somehow the Evangelical Friends were put in charge, which meant all the speakers were...
Things We Got Just Right (We Value Experience Over Belief)

Things We Got Just Right (Sacramental Living)

by Stacey Denny | Jun 20, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

When our children were born, Joan bought a camera and started taking pictures. Pictures of everything—vacations, hikes, family gatherings, birthday parties, first haircuts, first days of school, holidays, thousands of pictures. Just when I thought I couldn’t take it...
Things We Got Just Right (We Value Experience Over Belief)

What in the World Were We Thinking (Adversarial Religion) Philip Gulley

by Stacey Denny | Jun 3, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

I remember when I was in the sixth grade and my best friend was a boy named Joe who was a Jehovah’s Witness. I was still Catholic and believed Joe was going to hell so made it my purpose in life to point out the errors of his religion and convert him to the One True...
Things We Got Just Right (We Value Experience Over Belief)

What In the World Were We Thinking? (Our Belief in the End Times)

by Stacey Denny | Apr 20, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

Well, that was some eclipse, wasn’t it? I hope you were able to enjoy it since we won’t have another one until 2153, 129 years from now. Thirty-five of us gathered on the kitchen porch here at the meetinghouse. Herb and Chris grilled hot dogs and we ate moon pies and...
Things We Got Just Right (We Value Experience Over Belief)

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...
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