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C Wess Daniels

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.

  1. 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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  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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,

  6. 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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  8. 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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  10. 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

  11. 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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  13. 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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  15. 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