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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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Freedom Friends Church Faith and Practice
Freedom Friends Church in Salem Oregon is currently an independent meeting that has recently written their own Faith and Practice. A number
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Old Quaker Discipline on the Poor
While I was researching for a recent sermon I came across some great quotes on poverty from 18th Century Quakers. One thing
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Check Out The Kingdom Experiment (Book Review)
I recently subscribed to the new magazine Generate, which I highly recommend for all of you in church ministry and thinking about
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Confession: The Prayer of Vulnerability (Matthew 6:12-13)
My first six months of youth ministry were a bear. The church I served in had three kinds coming to the youth group when I arrived, one was the pastors son and the
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Chesterton and the (il)logic(ality) of life.
Just stumbled across this in my reading this morning, it works well with what I’m reflecting on with “confession as vulnerability,
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A Common Trashcan at Camas Friends
This past Sunday we piled new and gently used items for homeless people in Camas into a new galvanized trashcan I picked
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Food, Inc. Documentary on Where Our Food Comes From (Review)
The tag line for FOOD, inc. is “You’ll never look at your dinner the same way again,” and well, they’re
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Eat. Enough. Give. (Matthew 6:11)
This is the sermon on the Disciple’s Prayer from Sunday morning. This morning we step foot inside the second strand of the Disciples prayer, the ethics strand, the strand that gives us
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An Old Mennonite Rendering of The Disciple’s Prayer
I came across this old Mennonite rendering of the Disciple’s Prayer and love it. Abba Father God, Bless your holy name.
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Dive! The Film: A Review of Jeremy Seifert’s Documentary on Dumpster Diving
At Camas Friends Church, we’ve been doing a monthly film and discussion group we’re calling “Last Sundays for the Earth.” The purpose of the event is to watch a film, or have
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Limiting Access: Flickr and Archiving Our Children’s Lives
I’ve been pretty open about sharing our lives online. I regularly post photos on flickr, videos on vimeo, post updates to twitter and facebook and even blog here (on this blog and our
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(Untitled)
This is an extended version of what I preached on Sunday morning November 1, 2009 Last week we began a new set of conversations, where we are exploring what Im referring to as,
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Mission and the Disciple’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)
Here is the text from my sermon this morning. How many of you have prayed this prayer before (at least once)? How many of you pray it often? What has been your experience with
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Interventions: The Final Intervention is Also the First (Luke 24:1-7)
This is the text from my sermon last week. Compost: What do you notice about compost? What does it do? Observe the compost — what can you tell from it. Is it at all like
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Resources for Studying the Disciple’s Prayer (Matthew 6 and Luke 11)
This Sunday morning we are beginning a series of discussions around the Disciple’s Prayer in Matt. 6-913 and Luke 11:
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