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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 Memorial Service
Today I did my second memorial service as the pastor at Camas Friends. The first was just a couple months ago and was for a lady I’d never met. But this time it
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What is the Quaker Peace Testimony?
Here are my notes from Sunday’s sermon. This month we are discussing what is now known as the Quaker peace testimony, but was, interestingly, called the testimony against war, up until about the
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One Take On the Importance of the Quaker Practice of “Open Worship”
Adrian Halverstadt, a Quaker pastor, asks this question on the QuakerQuaker forum boards: I have been thinking a lot about open worship these days. Many of the larger evangelical Friends churches no longer practice
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Advent Message “Come Be Born in Us” (Luke 1:39-55)
Today we are three weeks into the advent season preparing for Christs coming. Christmas, for Christians, is not simply a remembrance and celebration of history (though it is certainly that), it is more
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A Thought for Quakers on Change
I am preparing my discussion for our Sunday morning meeting for worship and am thinking a lot about what Kester Brewin calls
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Favorite Music of 2009
Here’s a list of my favorite, or at least most listened to, albums from this past year. Elvis Perkins In Dearland
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Let’s have an Amazon.com-free Christmas this year
Recently on twitter I said something I’m sure lost me a few followers, “Let’s make it an amazon free Christmas.” (Though I don’t doubt I say plenty of things on any
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Dowd on (Role) Modeling
I came across this today while I was doing some back reading from this weekend’s newspaper. It struck me as really
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‘Dont Buy It’ – Slam Poetry from the Climate Camp for OneClimate.net
Came across this today while reading Jarrod McKenna’s post on climate change over at the sojo blog. The poem is really
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Home From a Retreat at the Beach
This past Friday I gave a bit of a cry-for-help and have been feeling under a lot of pressure lately
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Finding God in the Chaos?
With the new baby having arrived, working on a final paper for my methods course this quarter, having been sick for a
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Our Own Mini Advent: Baby Daniels #2 Arrives!
As most of you know by now, thanks (or no thanks) to my facebook and twitter, we’ve had our baby. In keeping with the trend of announcing big life transitions here I wanted
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Organizing Ministry in DevonThink Pro
[This is a tutorial on software I use for writing and organization.] When I started pastoring I created a DEVONthink database for
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Cancel Our Debts?
In my reading of the Disciple’s Prayer (the anabaptist/Quaker name for the Lord’s Prayer), we have to make sure that we dont limit what forgiveness includes ((See part 3, part
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We All Know That Reality has a Well-Known “Conservative” Bias
One of the things my favorite (fake) newscaster Stephan Colbert says on a regular bias is that “Major media has a well-known liberal bias.” And this is definitely something many people believe. This