About
C. Wess Daniels
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In Short
I discuss on this site theology, Anabaptism and Quakerism, emerging church issues, media and culture, educational technology as well as my pursuits as a PhD student, teacher’s assistant, husband and Angeleno. And of course the random tidbits and tongue and cheek comments I love to add when I’m feeling antsy. Wow, that’s a mouth full.
A Bit More
I’m C. Wess Daniels, oldest of 9, born in Canton Ohio and currently living with my wife (since 2001), Emily (Miller) Daniels, in Los Angeles. We lived in canton and went to Malone College, where we met one another and fell in love.I finished Malone in 2002 with a bachelor’s in Bible and Theology and a minor in Philosophy.
We moved to Pasadena so I could go to grad school at Fuller Theological Seminary where I worked on my Masters of Arts in Theological Studies. I graduated a year ago and took the following year to work and let my mind rest from school.
I am now doing my doctoral studies at Fuller under Dr. Ryan Bolger in the School of Intercultural Studies. My focus will be on the crisis of traditions in the postmodern world, how culture effects the practices of those traditions and what we might do about helping those traditions be useful to the world today.
What I like about this is that it will pull from a variety of academic areas including, sociology, theology, philosophy and history - all areas I am interested in. I will be studying with Ryan Bolger, a professor I met in the spring of 2005 and realized that we had a lot of interests in common, I also TA for him and we are both interested in how to technology can be used for theological education as well as what it can teach us about the world and our own theology.
Theologically we consider ourselves Quakers, but currently we attend Pasadena Mennonite Church because it they are trying to both follow Jesus and perform socially oriented acts of mercy and justice.
My Interests in Blogging and Technology I am an avid Mac-user (as most mac users are), and have been blogging since 2/10/2003. My first blog was one xanga, where I learned about the basics of writing on the web, next as I looked to have more features I moved to blogger. My blog on blogspot.com is where I began to find a voice, created a site name (Gathering in Light) and began searching for people to dialogue with. In my blogger days, I started writing from a decidedly Quaker position on issues that I was learning and reading about, I discovered that there was a whole community of Quaker bloggers growing in cyberspace - we are all gathered together on QuakerQuaker.org. Meeting these quakers over the internet has been a great joy for me beacause a) I’ve learned how to particpate in a larger ongoing conversation with people from various backgrounds and theological presuppositions (and enjoy it) and b) I’ve made some really cool friends some of whom we’ve driven to Berkeley to meet, had a beer with in the pasadena, talked to over the phone, or have become pen/email pals with.
Then my good friend JR Rozko and I decided to get our own domains and begin using wordpress to power our blogs and website. I have become even more interested and more focused in my attention to blogging and getting to know people around the web. Lately my focus, beside QuakerQuaker, has been on the daily scribe, wordpress, and emerging church communities. I am in a sense learning and trying to figure out the intersection between theology, technology and virtual communities.
Some of my extras on the web
1. Articles I think are worthwhile (that I’ve written)
2. See my photos my flickr page or on site albums.
3. My myspace.com 4. My Last.fm page 5. The Classes I TA
Some of my other hobbies include: Playing and writing music, making short films and music videos, backpacking, biking, smoking my meerschaum pipe my mom gave me and hanging out with my wife.
Please feel free to contact me or drop me an AIM instant message at gatheringinlight.
