Author
C Wess Daniels
Wess is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College. He is a recorded Quaker minister engaged in renewal, resisting empire, and liberation theology.
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It Is Closer Than You Think
Is faith always a long reach out of hand? I wonder when I see people searching, struggling to find God if the thought is the more distant the revelation, the greater the conversion? One
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Does the heart have a narrow door? by Carol Bialock
Eric Muhr from Barclay Press shared this poem around earlier this week from a new book of poetry Barclay Press recently published from Carol Bialock, which is really good: Does the heart have a
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Dress-Down Friday for June 7, 2019
I’ve got some fun links to share today: I read Austin Kleon’s book “Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative
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Discerning Endings
New beginnings are hard. Endings may be even harder. It is hard to say goodbye. It is hard to see all the hard work, all the investment evaporate before our very eyes. It is
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Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation
Revelation speaks to the reality that we are caught in the fray of cosmic conflict. We are guilty. We’ve already been contaminated. But it’s not too late for us to exit empire
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New EBook is Out! Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance
Hi Everyone, I’m so excited to announce that my new EBook from Barclay Press on the book of Revelation is now out. It is available through Amazon.com. Check it out!
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An Inward Sea by Howard Thurman
There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar and standing guard before that altar is the ”angel with
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New Book on Revelation “Resisting Empire” Coming Soon
I’ve been working on a book about Revelation that offers a different perspective then the “Revelation as End-of-the-World”
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Four Key Aspects to Understanding Renewal in Faith Communities
“Kindness eases change Love quiets fear” ― Octavia E. Butler In a lot of my classes and work at Guilford College, I talk about renewal. I think that much of my work is focused around
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Pedro the Lion Rises from the Ashes With Phoenix
With ‘Phoenix’, Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan Emerges from the Mines of His Interiority : NPR: By offering up his own interior narrative, Bazan holds a mirror to the self-mythologizing we all do
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Becoming Facebook Free
I’ve struggled with Facebook for some time. For about the last 2.5 years, I’ve basically wanted to deactivate my account and have even downloaded all my information from it more than
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End of the Year Reflections
We had some friends over for New Year’s, which was a lot of fun and just the right way to close out the year. Having a variety of people from across various social
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How to Not Always Be Working by Marlee Grace
I got this lovely little book for Christmas from a colleague and read it over break. How to Not Always Be Working: a toolkit for creativity and radical self-care by marlee grace is
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Conducting an Annual Review
I posted this article last year on a different blog. It’s still pretty useful and worth sharing here for those of you interested in doing an annual review or learning about the process
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Enneagram Journaling Exercises
I am a big a big fan of the Enneagram and have been using it more and more lately in my work
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