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

Things We Got Just Right (The Triumph of Good) 

by Stacey Denny | Aug 26, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

Joan and I went on vacation this past week, meeting up with our son Sam and his family in Grand Lake, Colorado just outside the Rocky Mountain National Park, where I was subjected to daily death marches up and down the mountainsides. It wasn’t even pretty, because in...
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? (Disownment for Marrying a Non-Quaker)

by Stacey Denny | May 22, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

One of the things Joan and I have always enjoyed is antiquing, so when we renovated her family’s farmhouse, and had to furnish it, we went to Gilley’s Antique Mall in search of a chest of drawers for the downstairs bedroom. We found a beautiful handmade chest with a...
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