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Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (5)

Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (5)

by Stacey Denny | Jan 22, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages

I was up at Life’s Journey this week visiting Stacey Denny’s mother, who’s in hospice there. They have a bookshelf in the lobby filled with religious books, including a book called Heaven, written by a man named Randy Alcorn, whom I met 30 years ago when I started...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (5)

Things We Got Just Right (Universality Over Nationality)

by Stacey Denny | Sep 23, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

When I was in the fourth grade, one of my best friends was a boy named Joe Bryant, whose family rented a farmhouse southwest of Danville on Mackey Road. He moved to our town at the start of the school year, and we became friends the first week of school. His family...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (5)

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...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (5)

What In the World Were We Thinking? (A Distrust of Leaders)

by Stacey Denny | Apr 20, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

Some time ago, I wrote an essay about the abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. It got published and circulated around, and made its way back to Danville, to the Catholic Church where I had been raised. I knew that was likely to happen and had girded my loins, as the...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (5)

Quaker Qualities (Democratic Discernment)

by Stacey Denny | Feb 15, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

It was my birthday this past week. I turned 63 and thought it important to have a little preventative maintenance done on my chassis, so Monday had my teeth cleaned, Tuesday had six pre-cancerous lesions frozen off, fasted on Wednesday, in preparation for a...
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