


A Culture of Caring
by Stacey Denny | Apr 15, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
Welcome, friends. It is, as always, a delight to be with you in this pleasant place. It was Winston Churchill who famously said, “We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.” I was having lunch with a friend this past week who asked me what I would have done if...
Do’s and Don’ts In a Time of Change (4)
by Stacey Denny | Jan 20, 2025 | Plain Speech Messages
Our gratitude to Mike Goss for bringing the message last week. I was at our farm in Paoli and Jackson was down with Covid in Richmond, after attending a Quaker pastor’s conference at Quaker Haven, which I was supposed to attend but couldn’t because of a funeral....
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 (Innovation over Tradition)
by Stacey Denny | Sep 23, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages
My phone rang not long ago. It was a Quaker calling from out-of-state, whom I had met several years ago at a conference. He called because their Quaker meeting was in decline, and he wanted to know if I had any suggestions that might revive their meeting. He said,...