Featured Origin Stories and Midwives of the Spirit (John 3) This is my last prepared message given to Camas Friends Church (June 21, 2015). “Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the
Convergent Friends Convergent Model of Renewal: A Sketchnote Companion and Discussion Guide (Complete) Last night we finished up a six-week discussion at Camas Friends Church on my book. You can purchase “A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture” through my publisher Wipf and Stock or on Amazon (it’s more expensive there): “A Convergent Model of Renewal.
Uncategorized Convergent Model of Renewal: Discussion Guide and Sketchnotes (Chapter 3) We are doing a discussion at Camas Friends Church on my book, “A Convergent Model of Renewal.” This week is chapter three, which covers what we can learn from participatory culture. I am posting the sketchnotes and discussion questions here each week for anyone who would like to download them
Uncategorized A Fantastic, Participatory, Quaker Meeting “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer,
Featured A Remixed Church: Adaptation, Legos and Renewal (Isaiah 43:18-19) “Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of
Featured A Blended Family: On The Importance of Difference “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26) “Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled
Featured Convergent Model of Renewal: Discussion Guide and Sketchnotes (Chp. 2) We are doing a discussion at Camas Friends Church on my book, “A Convergent Model of Renewal.” I am posting the sketchnotes and discussion questions here each week for anyone who would like to download them and use them. Feel free to share and dispense however that makes sense as
Featured New Life After Loss (John 21:1-12) This is a portion of the message that I gave on resurrection Sunday, April 5, 2015 We have been reflecting on the theme of transformation this year, because as the elders spent time praying for the coming year, we knew God was inviting into deeper transformations as a community. A
The Pastorate Memory of Love: Practicing Pregnant Absence “You are witnesses of these things. And see, I am sending upon you what my Father promised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them.
Featured Peter’s Unfinished Love (John 21:15-23) “When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.”” (John 21:15 NRSV) This week, as I was thinking
Remixing Faith Sketchnote: What Makes for a Good Remix? What makes for a good remix? What makes for a bad one? When is a remix not a remix but a cover or a something more “original?” These are questions that come up a lot when I present on themes related to the Convergent Model of Renewal. When I think
Quotations Detachment by Anthony de Mello DETACHMENT by Anthony de Mello “The only way to change is by changing your understanding. But what does it mean to understand? How do we go about it? Consider how we’re enslaved by various attachments; we’re striving to rearrange the world so that we can keep these attachments,
The Pastorate Are You Still Here? Thoughts on Leave-Taking After telling a friend of mine that my family and I would be leaving the NW in a few months for a job change, she offered solid wisdom I have hung onto: “Do your best to pay attention to everything that is happening around, the emotions, the reactions, the people
Blog Entries Think with Paper & Pencil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAm3QkhxaU&ct=t(Rohdesign_Newsletter_RSS_4_2_2015)&mc_cid=acabb97213&mc_eid=d2e782b1af Even though this is basically an infomercial on paper for iPad, I like what they bring up about the importance of thinking visually. Also, I do
Quotations Edward Abbey on Living My friend Greg Woods reminded me of this quote today, which is really quite amazing: One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am – a reluctant enthusiast….a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and
Featured Convergent Model of Renewal: Discussion Guide and Sketchnotes (Intro & Chp. 1) We have started a discussion group at Camas Friends Church to discuss my book, A Convergent Model of Renewal. I will post the sketchnotes and discussion questions here each week for anyone who would like to download them and use them. Feel free to share and dispense however that makes
Featured Avoiding the Default Position (John 21:1-14) “That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on some clothes, for he was naked, and jumped into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for
Featured The Gift of Thomas (John 20) “But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in
Blog Entries Exploring a Rhythm of Life, Creativity, and Leadership from the Quaker Tradition with Rhett Smith Rhett Smith Podcast 6: Exploring a Rhythm of Life, Creativity, and Leadership from the Quaker Tradition — with Theologian, Professor and Writer, Wess Daniels. Rhett and I became friends at Fuller Seminary when I was working on my Masters in Theology and he was working on his Masters in Family Therapy.
Blog Entries Our Big News About Guilford College This was recently posted to Guilford College’s website: C. Wess Daniels has been named the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies, succeeding Max Carter, who will retire this summer after 25 years at Guilford. Wess has been a full-time Quaker minister, educator, researcher and public
Featured Meeting for Readings and How to Do Them Mikel Birkel’s book “Engaging Scripture” Reading the Bible with Early Friends,” is a fantastic book that is helpful not just for Quakers but for anyone looking for different ways of reading Scripture (inwardly, meditatively, together, lectio, for transformation, etc.). It’s a book we’ve used in a variety
Blog Entries Upcoming Agenda for Greensboro Visit Guilford College is flying me out to Greensboro, NC next week (March 27-April 1) to be their “Judith Weller Harvey Scholar” and to do some speaking around the area. I’m looking forward to visiting with f/Friends, having a little time away with my wife, Emily, who is joining
Uncategorized Snakes on a pole or The Rut That I Love (John 3:13-21) “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not
Prayers A Prayer from Dorothy White “You are the branches of the true Vine, you Spouses of the Beloved, you Daughters of [Zion] and Sons of Jacob…let the tribulated [rejoice] and sing, let the poor in spirit be glad; let them that dwell in the Valleys [rejoice], who drink of the Springs of the Fountain
Featured Jesus, God’s Wrath and the Merchants of Truth (John 2) “In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and
