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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Meeting is a Muscle: Teaching Worship To Children / Chad Stephenson
This is a guest post written by Chad Stephenson a Quaker from San Francisco. It is a response to the Friends Journal article “Bringing Children to Worship” and my follow-up article found here.
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Suicide and The Things We Carry: A Meditation on the Loss of a Father
Suicide and The Things We Carry: A Meditation on the Loss of a Father
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Listening for God: The Eagle and the Bent Woman (Lk 13)
“Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and
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Describing “Silent” Worship to Children
Awhile back I did a Godly Play story during our meeting for worship. We invited the children to say with the adults and participate in our listening to the story. After the story we
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Thoughts on Bringing Children To Worship
As parents bringing children and teens to a time of worship can be a struggle. We place a lot of expectations on our kids and often hope they won’t “misbehave” during church. Plus,
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Listening as an Act of Faith (Hebrews 11)
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1 NRSV) Introduction: Red Phone Skit – LInk There is No Red Phone If we’re going to
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There is No Red Phone [A Skit]
This is a skit we did just before my message this past Sunday. We had fun with it. [Person picks up red
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Rufus Jones – What is Vital?
The time has come – it is long overdue – for a Christianity that is fresh and vital and in conformity with established truth, but, what is no less important, proves its reality by the test-
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I dreamed a dream
I rarely have vivid dreams but last night I had a dream that a random group of people followed me as I
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Listening From the Divine Perspective (Hosea 11)
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more I called them, the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals, and
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George Bernard Shaw – The True joy of Life
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of
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Mysticism, Revolution or Suicide?
One of the books I’m reading currently is Henri Nouwen’s “Wounded Healer.” There is a lot that is quote-worthy
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Having Ears to Hear: Moving Towards Sympathy (Amos 8)
As you are all well aware this past weekend a not guilty verdict was handed down to George Zimmerman acquitting him of the murder of Trayvon Martin, the teenage african-american boy he shot
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Jesus and Love – James Alison
We often speak of God as love, but what do we mean by that? Often “love” is used to mean “don’t
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Revelation #Sketchnotes
Reading Revelation #Sketchnotes, a photo by cwd1978 on Flickr. Here are some sketchnotes I’ve put together as a kind of overview of some of the things I’ve tried to focus on as