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Things We Got Just Right (Universality Over Nationality)

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...
Things We Got Just Right (Universality Over Nationality)

Things We Got Just Right (Equality Over Cultural Norms)

by Stacey Denny | Jul 8, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

Several years ago, a man I know was told he was dying, which of course we all are, but his death was sooner than he had anticipated. Though well-off, he’d always been miserly, to the frustration of his wife who wanted them to travel and see things and visit their...
Things We Got Just Right (Universality Over Nationality)

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 (Universality Over Nationality)

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 (Universality Over Nationality)

Quaker Qualities (Not Just Integrity, but Integration)

by Stacey Denny | Mar 14, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

Several years ago, Joan and I were in Frostburg, Maryland, attending the sessions of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. For those of you not accustomed to our Quaker jargon, a yearly meeting is a collection or assemblage of local or monthly meetings, usually in the same...
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