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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Modest Proposal .pdf Version Available
Because I’ve been posting about Brent Bill’s recent series of posts about the revitalization of Friends I wanted to alert
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Seeing Beyond What We See
At Camas Friends we are thinking about advent season and how it is connected to our sense of sight this year. Here’s something short I’ve written about it: This advent season we
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Postlib or Emerging?
A friend sent this today and it had me laughing out loud. It’s really hard to choose which one I’d
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The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives
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Escapism and Citizenship on the Web
The web has been a good place to me. I have formed many meaningful relationships over the web, I have maintained long distance ones, and I have had the opportunity to be a part
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More Detailed Information for Quaker Heritage Day
February 12-13 I will be in Berkeley (at Berkeley Friends Church) discussing some of my favorite topics with anyone who wants
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A Silencing Witness
Came across this quote today and found it to be particularly good in relationship to the text I’m reflecting on this
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Thanksgiving and Irony
Here’s the message I gave this past Sunday. I am not going to be posting my sermons online as much as I have been in the past but since our recording software for
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Being A “Released” Minister
I recently went through and changed most of my online profiles, email signatures, and even our bulletin for Sunday morning it from “pastor” to “released minister” as that language seems to fit where I
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To The Church in North America by Kester Brewin
Came across this video today by Kester Brewin. I think it has a lot to say. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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A ‘Missional’ Church Statement
Here’s one of my favorite missional church statements of all time: In the power of life and wisdom, and dread of
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“How to Be a Poet” by Wendell Berry
(to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill
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Save the Date: Quaker Heritage Day 2011
I’ve been asked to be the speaker for Quaker Heritage Day, a day long series of talks around, you guessed it,
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New Missiology Books October 2010
As a doctoral student in missiology I like to keep up on the new things getting published on the subject. Here are
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Social Media and the Illusion of Action
The other day I got caught up in following Kester Brewin’s tweets on the Apple 8 Media: Social Media and Political
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