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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.

23 February 2010 Prayer 1 min read

Thou

Thou Whom I do not know But Whose I am. Thou Whom I do not comprehend But Who has dedicated me To my fate. Thou -Dag Hammarskjold, Markings p.214-215
18 February 2010 Lent 4 min read

Ash Wednesday Prayer Service

Today has been great. We had a really great meeting with the Camas-Washougal Homelessness Task Force this afternoon. A visitor from New Life Friends Church came and talked to us about a variety
16 February 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 1 min read

Connecting with M

This past Sunday was a great day. It was a lot of fun having Eliacin Rosario-Cruz and family and Mark van Steenwyk visit our meeting (not to mention go to their discussion on
16 February 2010 Featured 9 min read

Transfiguration, Zombies and Being Fully Awake (Luke 9:28-36)

Last week we talked about making peace with the earth and part of what is needed in order to do that is to have a conversion where we go through the process of blindness
12 February 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

Working in Established Congregations

I had a conversation yesterday that reminded me of something I hadn’t written about. Going through grad school I was pretty sure that I would end up planting a church or just teaching
11 February 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

My Very Own False Advisers

Ryan, my doctoral adviser, sent this to me this morning, and I confess I had a good chuckle over the fact that all three of my PhD committee members are considered false teachers: “It
10 February 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 9 min read

Life is a Miracle: Making Peace with All Things (Col. 1:15-23)

This is my sermon from this past Sunday on making peace with the earth. First A Confession: This is not a topic I have not always cared about. I am no scientist. I am
9 February 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 3 min read

(Not A) Golden Mouth

I’m hoping some day preaching becomes the kind fluid movement for me that other people in their professions seem to acquire with their skills of necessity. You know, where the person is so
6 February 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

Lifestyle

I’ve been thinking about my lifestyle a lot lately. One reason for this is that I’ve recently had trouble with my back and neck and have suffered from some pretty intense tension
4 February 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

Can Quakers Plan?

I never used to be big on planning ahead. In undergrad I was the guy working on papers through the night and then jogging to class with a wet ink on a newly printed
3 February 2010 Green 2 min read

On Earth As it is in Heaven

This is the last week for peace month at Camas Friends even though January officially ended a couple days ago. I thought why not extend it just a little longer so we can focus
3 February 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 2 min read

Feeding Sheep With Steady Diets of This and That

I’ve missed a few days of posting for my series (I try to post on the days I work) but I’m back on it. I last wrote about my full weekend, and
30 January 2010 Six Months Quaker Preacher 1 min read

A Full Weekend Ahead

I had the best intentions of writing a post about yesterday, but I was just too exhausted and went to bed after watching my favorite “fake news” shows. This morning I’m headed out
Note 29 Jan 2010

Homeless in Our Town?

Since high school I have been drawn to ministry among the poor. Part of it was because we grew up poor (at
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Note 28 Jan 2010

Conversion(s) b

Just as I was heading to bed last night I learned that Howard Zinn, history professor and author at Boston University, had
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