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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 Wounding of Creation
This morning someone in our meeting requested prayer for the oil spill and during the time of prayer the image of the
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Lady Wisdom, Feminine Divine and Proverbs 8
Last week we discussed Proverbs 8, here are some of my thoughts on the passage. Lets be honest here, the (divine
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Sometimes the Long Days Are Really Good
A lot of people want to know what a pastor does with her or his time throughout the day. I have one person who mentioned that they figured I had a lot of free
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Doing Film Events in the Church
One idea we’ve been doing at our church (Camas Friends) we started last fall, it’s called “Last Sunday’s for
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Movements and Common Language of the Spirit – Acts 2
Last week I wrote a little about our experience of visiting another Quaker meeting in Portland last Sunday. During that time of open worship I thought some about Acts 2 and Pentecost. It was
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Reenforcing Totalitarian Power Through Masculine Language
I came across this quote today while working on my sermon for Sunday: “We have tended to use particular power models for
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The Spirit Skips, God Dances
During worship at Multnomah Meeting on Sunday I kept thinking about the fact that it was Pentecost Sunday and reflecting on the
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Where do we see ourselves in each other? Camas Friends Visit Multnomah Quakers
This Sunday morning Camas Friends locked the doors to our meetinghouse and took a field trip into Portland to worship with Multnomah Monthly Meeting, an unprogrammed (as in silent worship) that is a part
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Friends Association for Higher Education Coming Up
I am going to make this plug for my friends at Friends Association for Higher Education coming this summer. I would be
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Building Networks of Support and Eldering
There’s a lot to say about this past weekend retreat on Convergent Friends and New Monasticism and it’s going to take me some time to unpack all the various experiences, ideas and
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Mary’s Flowering Tree (John 12)
I preached a while back on John 12:1-8 which reads: Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2There they
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Spirit Rising: Young Quakers Are Speaking
Two weeks ago I was in Indiana for the book release party for the book I helped get published: Spirit Rising: Young
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Too Many Dave’s
And now for something out of the ordinary. Since we have small children in the house, we get our fair share of
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New Monastics and Convergent Friends Retreat Outline
Martin Kelley and I will be leading a weekend retreat at Pendle Hill in just a couple weeks (May 14-16) and
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The Resurrection and Quaker Communion
Awhile back a reader commented on a post I wrote on Open Worship: A new Friend shared with me that she had started reading about the other branches of Quakerism. She concluded with these