by Stacey Denny | Jan 19, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
My friend Jim Mulholland grew up in Greenville, Illinois, where his father taught philosophy at Greenville College. And his father before him. So Jim was steeped in the deep waters of academia, which I realized when I first met him in seminary. A group of us were...
by Stacey Denny | Aug 6, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages
Earlier this summer, Joan had gone with Madeline to the store, so I was lying on the couch, praying, when I heard a knock at our back door. No one we know ever knocks, they just walk in, or call out. We’re not long on formalities. So when they knocked, I knew it...
by Stacey Denny | Feb 27, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages
This past week, I was at the bank and noticed the young woman working as a teller had her preferred pronouns, “she/her,” written on her name tag, just after her name. I thought, “Well, that’s just because she’s young and idealistic,” but then I noticed all...
by Stacey Denny | May 12, 2023 | GraceTalk Messages
VIEW VIDEO It is good to be back. I was at a Quaker pastor’s retreat this week, then last weekend Joan and I went to the farmhouse to work outside, cleaning away the dross of winter, picking up fallen sticks, raking the flower beds, mowing and weed-whipping, sweeping...
