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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Short, Pithy, Deceased
Jake Bouma asked on twitter the other day: “Friends: Suggestions for short (100-200pgs), pithy books by deceased theologians?” Good question. I’
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The Present Work of Atonement
Came across this quote today by one of my favorite theologians and it sums up in a really nice way some of
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Jesus, the Risen One (Jn 20)
This is the message I gave on Easter morning. This morning we celebrate and remember Jesus raising from the dead. It is not uncommon on Easter Sunday for those in the church to focus
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Art and Protest: BP and Tate Modern
Saw this today and thought it was awesome (ht: GOOD). This art protest is from the liberate tate group. [youtube https://www.
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Who is Raised?
I’m enjoying preparing for worship this coming Easter Sunday. What a great day to celebrate and reflect on. I came across
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Connecting with Poverty in Our Community
A week or so ago the Oregonian published an article about poverty in our neck of the woods. The article profiles the “subtle shifts” of poverty taking place in Clark County, the county of
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One of the blog I really like to read, Special Communion, just posted an upcoming event that I’d like to bring
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Prayers: Elizabeth Woolman
I’ve recently re-read John Woolman’s Journal and have found it to be very challenging and nurturing once again. If you haven’t read it yet I can’t recommend it enough
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Jesus, the Prophet of Mud
This is the text from a recent sermon of mine taken from John 9 where Jesus heals the blind beggar. (We used
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Waiting for Spring
DSCN7306, a photo by C. Wess Daniels on Flickr. This was a picture I took a little more than a month ago,
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Christ the Gathering Point (John 4)
This is some of the text I used on Sunday. I ended up preaching a message that was pretty different in a lot of ways from what I originally prepared, but I thought I’
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Love Was the First Motion (John 1)
At our church for Lent we’re reflection on two interrelated questions “Who is Christ?” and “What Canst Thou Say (about this Christ)?” So there’s an inner tension in these two questions: what
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Travelogue from Quaker Heritage Day (Audio)
This is probably the last of my Quaker Heritage Day reports, but a few Sundays back I shared during worship about our
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Ancient Paths
Read this today and found it inspiring: It is of the new things that men tire – of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It
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Remix Culture and the Church
During Quaker Heritage Day one of the key themes I discussed was the idea of remix culture recently written about by Lawrence Lessig in his book with the same title. ((You can download Remix