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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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Uniformity, Religio & Solidarity (Psalm 133)
This is the message I gave during our meeting for worship on Sunday August 13, 2011. _religion and Norway On July 22, 2011, a 32-year-old man drove his car into the city
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Reading the Bible for Transformation
George Fox once wrote: I saw also how people read the Scriptures without a right sense of them, and without duly applying
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State of the Church: Camas Friends Church
I just posted our 2011 “State of the Church Report” on our meeting’s blog. You can read it here: http://wp.
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The Company We Keep: Empathy and Reading the Bible Together (Acts 8)
This is the message I gave this past Sunday. _THE B.I.B.L.E. The Bible is, for better or for worse, one of the most influential documents in the history of the
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The Res. Community Pt. 4: The Last Breakfast, or First Potluck (John 21)
This is the message I gave that is a part of a longer series on the resurrection community from a few weeks back. _The last breakfast on the beach Post Easter weve been
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GMO OMG! Jeremy Seifert’s New Sizzle Real
My friend Jeremy Seifert, the guy behind the popular documentary Dive!, which I have reviewed here in the past, is beginning work
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_Introduction A couple weeks back we discussed how the resurrection community is a participatory community, that is that Jesus invited his disciples to bring some of their fish and add it to the pile
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The Res. Community (Pt. 3): Success and The Famous Catch of John 21
This is the third part in a five-part series looking at the final resurrection appearances of Jesus in the book of
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Lord, Lord, Open Unto Me: Howard Thurman (Prayer)
I was recently given a prayer book from a friend in our meeting called Prayers from the Heart by Richard Foster. ((Books
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A Prayer of Interdependence
God of the body of Christ, organs and limbs, feet and hands, the weak and the strong, the broken and the suffering,
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Celebrating Our Interdependence (1 Corinthians 12:12-26)
This is the text to the message I gave on July 3, 2011. _intro: (dis)membership I was reading in a magazine called the Christian Century the other day and they recently put out
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Morning Prayer by Henry T. Hodgkin
I ran across this prayer from Quaker Henry T. Hodgkin (1877-1933) in the most recent Friends Journal issue on Pendle Hill: Firm when all round me is in flux and seething Strong when
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On Love, Meekness and Watching Over Each Other (Isaac Penington 1667)
My friend Vail Palmer recently recommended to me to read Isaac Pennington’s book of letters. While I was at George Fox University this week for a conference on discernment and leadership I took
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The Res. Community Part 2: Finders, Seekers (Jn. 20)
This was my prepared message for worship last Sunday. It is the second in a series looking at what it means to be the church in relationship to the final resurrection appearances of Jesus
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The Resurrection Community Part 1: Standing in the Midst (John 20:19-23)
This was my prepared message for worship last Sunday. It is the first in a series looking at what it means to be the church in relationship to the final resurrection appearances of Jesus