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Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

by Stacey Denny | Aug 12, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

I was down in southern Indiana a while back, riding motorcycles with my friend Dave, the newest member of the Quaker Oatlaws Motorcycle Club. We stopped for lunch in New Boston, then decided to head further south to ride on the Ohio River Scenic Byway, a curvy,...
Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

Things We Got Just Right (We Value Experience Over Belief)

by Stacey Denny | Jun 24, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

This happened maybe 30 years ago, when I attended a conference for Quaker pastors down in Orlando. Someone had the bright idea to get all the Quaker pastors in America together and somehow the Evangelical Friends were put in charge, which meant all the speakers were...
Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

Things We got Just Right (Our Insistence on Equality)

by Stacey Denny | Jun 10, 2024 | GraceTalk Messages

I got the notice this week that my high school graduating class is planning our 45th year reunion, which I was looking forward to, but now am not, due to the confirmed presence of a narcissistic man who spent our twelve years together bullying our most vulnerable...
Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

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...
Things We Got Just Right (Community Confirmation)

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...
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