Dear readers, this is an essay I have been working on in my role as the Director Friends Center at Guilford College. Some of you may know I have worked at Guilford for 10 years now in both a staff and faculty role, teaching Quaker studies and leading our office
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2025-05-12 - A message for First Friends Meeting in Greensboro, NC The text for the week (Although, I really drew on 10:1-18): “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own
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2025-04-05 Presented during the 400th Anniversary Review of Fox's birthday Context: I was asked to offer a playful, imaginative presentation as a last thought for our day long conference looking at George Fox's 400th birthday (last year) and what was learned from those events and where
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For the Quakers reading this blog and those interested in Quaker studies, this Saturday (Saturday 5 April 2025 - 13:30-21:00 (UK time)) there's a really great online mini-conference put on by Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre looking at the Quaker tradition at Fox's 400th birthday
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True love is not magic, It is certainty, And what follows from certainty is Mystery. -Bill Callahan Hi Friends, I am here in Phoenix, AZ for the week working with 8 Quaker meetings from El Salvador, Peru, Jamaica, and the United States for a program I helped create called Quaker
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Happy New Year to you all. I mean that even if we don't all feel it at the moment. Things are getting ugly since the presidental transition has taken place. Anxieties are up among a lot of my people and I'm not quite sure what to
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I had the opportunity to meet with some staff at the college this morning as we prepare for a new year with many uncertainties. Instead of trying to figure out or guess what is unknown, we focused on what from last year that we want to try and bring forward
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“When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do
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A Message for Deep River Friends in the Occasion of their “Founders Day Celebration” and honoring their 270th year as a meeting. November 10, 2024 In John 15 Jesus says: John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one
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Rhiannon Grant and I co-edited the book, The Quaker World published by Routledge in 2022 and it is now ou in paperback at a much cheaper price. The challenge of the original hardback was cost. At $200, it was not accessible. Rhiannon and I didn't choose the price
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This is something I wrote at the prompting of a colleague at Guilford College who wanted to know more about Quaker silence and our use of it on campus. Filed under "Frequently asked Quaker Questions." Dear friend, Quakers practice a listening silence when they gather for worship as
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My wife, Emily, recently asked me about my influences and it has me thinking about the spiritual significance and difference between being an influencer versus someone who is an influence. She asked the question, “Besides members of your family (because a typical response to this question often involves parents and/
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