This past week, I was asked to give a few remarks for a fundraiser at New Garden Friends Meeting for the organization, Every Campus a Refuge. If you don't know about "ECAR" you need to check it out. It was started at Guilford College by faculty
Continue reading →I was asked to write for the Political Theology website for the upcoming lectionary reading, Luke 18:1-8. This parable is well-known sometimes thought of as "the persistent widow and corrupt judge." My reading takes it in a different direction. Like all of Jesus' parables, this one
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Dear Friends, Happy September. Is it really September already?! Living life in submission to the academic calendar makes August a complete blur. Between my wife, Emily, our three teenagers, and my work at Guilford College, the "getting ready for start of school" becomes a sort of mantra in
Continue reading →Dear Friends, Next week, I travel to Northern California for some renewal work with Quaker meetings in San Mateo and Santa Cruz as a part of the Quaker Connect program of FWCC (applications are open for the 2026 cohort if you're interested). If you're in the
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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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