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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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A Prayer for Those in Need
Here is a prayer we prayed one Sunday morning after reflecting on those who have great needs in our town. God of the broken, God of the wanderer, Christ who is without shelter, Surround
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Simplicity in a World of Excess – John 12:1-8
This week on the pastor’s email list there has been a really long discussion around whether it is appropriate to boycott certain businesses. It all started when a pastor sent around a forward
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The Three Prodigals – Luke 15:11-32
This is the sermon from last week. prodigal 1 spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant : prodigal habits die hard. 2 having or giving something on a lavish scale : the dessert was
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Different Days Off
We decided to experiment with changing my days off, so I worked on Monday and am planning on taking Friday off. I have been taking Mondays off since I began pastoring last May. While
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Fast/Face
I’ve been scaling back my time on twitter for sometime; I nearly deleted the account a month ago but had too many friends ask me not to do it so I reconsidered. Now
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A Beginning and an Ending
Today was “one of those days.” That’s what I told the barista at the local coffee shop and that’s how I felt. It just seemed like I kept spinning my wheels all
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The New Quakers: A Faithful Betrayal? (Quaker Life Article)
Quaker Life Magazine published an article of mine called “The New Quakers: A Faithful Betrayal?” in their January/February 2010 issue. A number of people have asked for me to share it with them
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Helping the World? Get Fuzzy
Found this today in the paper. I love it. I feel like I know so many people who live out of this
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The 39 Steps at Portland Center Stage
This past Friday Emily and I were gifted with some tickets to the Portland Center Stage theater to watch the remake of Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps.” At first we thought the night was
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Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices (Pre-Order Our New Book!)
As many of you know I have been on an editorial board of young Quakers for that past couple years working on a book that collects writings from Quakers around the world. The book
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Hitting the Brakes
Even though I still intend on following my six-month project on being a Quaker minister, I’ve been slowing down on my blogging as part of my need to hit the brakes on
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Those Who Scatter and The One Who Gathers (Luke 13:31-35)
Here’s my sermon for Lent week 2. All of you are aware of the fact that a few weeks ago we buried a women from AA. That week while I was preparing a
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Lections
During our elder’s meeting a few weeks back I presented a calendar for the year that included e basic themes I am interested in covering in preaching for 2010, along with the days
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No, Lord.
Lent is upon us and I’m working out what it means for me to be awake and aware of Christ’s Light not just within but all around. One of the things that
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Missions by the Spirit by Ron Stansell (Quaker Missions)
Quaker Missiologist Ron Stansell has a new book coming out this month from Barclay Press called Missions By the Spirit. My review of the book is posted there if you have interest in getting