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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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The New Quaker Ad Network
Just a quick note to say that Martin Kelley and Friends Journal have teamed up to create the Quaker Ad Network. Which
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Conversion(s) c
This is a continuation from posts a and b. I’ve caught myself in the last few years reacting to my Evangelical
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Marriage Advice from Barrow Cadbury 1933
While preparing for a wedding this coming Saturday I ran across this quote from Barrow Cadbury (a Quaker who was related to
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There is No Pure Christianity
A long while back a friend of mine wrote on his twitter this remark: There is no pure Christianity, it is all
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Psalm 52: A Letter to Wall Street and Those of Similar Persuasion
Psalm 52. He and she who has ears to hear let them listen. To the fat cats of American capitalism: Why do
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The Queries and A Life of Discernment
Introduction Our world is made up of questions and ambiguities. Probably all of you have watched Jeopardy. The unique thing about the game of Jeopardy, besides its suave host Alex Trebek, is that the
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John Woolman is Dead
Opening Prayer (from the bulletin?) John Woolman is dead. These words may at first appear to be simply an obvious statement, uninteresting and useless. For some, it may be meaningless.Who is John Woolman,
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The Testimony of Enough (Matthew 6:19-34)
Editorial note: This week we discussed over email the question “What comes to mind for you when you think of plainness (or simplicity)?” We had a ton of responses from people on our church’
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An Uneasy Task for the Church – Romero
This is the mission entrusted to the church, a hard mission: to uproot sins from history, to uproot sins from the political
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Composting Quakerism: A Podcast Of Quaker Ministers from the NW
Last fall a few of us (younger) Quaker ministers from the Northwest Yearly Meeting got together to start work on a podcast. After a little deliberation we decided to call it Composting Quakerism (Facebook
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Being Dad
Just the other day I said to my wife, Emily, “I really like being a dad.” I will tell our oldest daughter
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The Testimony of Truthfulness (Matt. 5:33-37)
Text from my sermon June 13, 2010. This morning we begin our summer long discussion on Quaker testimonies with the testimony of truthfulness, or what has more typically been called the testimony of truth-
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Iconoclast: Interview with Wes Howard-Brook
Here is a really great interview from the Iconoclast this week which looks at the difference between a theology of creation and
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The Convergence of Quakerism – Ephesians 2:11ff
The text from my message given to Camas Friends Church June 6, 2010 Personal Histories In the last couple weeks, I have been reflecting a lot on my own history, my own personal narratives
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Lady Wisdom as Mid-Wife (Proverbs 8)
While I was at Pendle Hill a couple weeks back I mentioned there was a lot of talk about meeting houses closing, there was a lot of talk about death, some literal death, some