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What In the World Were We Thinking? (A Dress Code? Seriously?)

What In the World Were We Thinking? (A Dress Code? Seriously?)

by Stacey Denny | May 7, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

The older I get, the more I look forward to summer, and this summer especially. It’s been several years since I’ve been to the state fair, and there’s something I’ve always wanted to do there, but never have, which is to visit the Pentecostal tent just inside the...
What In the World Were We Thinking? (A Dress Code? Seriously?)

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...
What In the World Were We Thinking? (A Dress Code? Seriously?)

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...
What In the World Were We Thinking? (A Dress Code? Seriously?)

Cooperation, not Competition, as an Aspect of Community

by Stacey Denny | Mar 26, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

I was being a curmudgeon the other day, talking with someone about how young people today don’t know anything about history, when it occurred to me that until I was 30 or so, the only thing I knew about World War II was what I learned from watching Hogan’s Heroes. A...
What In the World Were We Thinking? (A Dress Code? Seriously?)

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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