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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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Learning How to Tell Time and Quaker Process
I’m enjoying the process of Reading and reflecting on Scripture weekly as I prepare my reflections for our Sunday. This week
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Art Simon and Bread For the World Event In Portland
I’m planning on attending the Bread for the World event tomorrow morning. If any of you are in the area and
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Interventions: The Real Distance of Our Neighbors (Luke 10:25-37)
For Sunday morning September 6 we covered the parable of the Good Samaritan. We did things a little differently this morning. At the beginning of the service we watched the short film from Deidox
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In (One) Top 100 Church Blogs List
So it appears as though someone has paid off this guy named Kent Schaffer to put my blog on his list of
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Bob Dylan and the BLACK CROSS (HEZEKIAH JONES)
I was listening to some Bob Dylan the other day when I ran across his version of Black Cross, a poem by
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Interventions: (The) Feeding (of) the Twelve? (Luke 9:10-17)
From Sunday August 30, 20009 [We used Bagels and Lox as a part of an object lesson during the Sermon, one possible (and tasty) contemporary rendering of loaves and fish.] This morning we are
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Taking Time To Learn About Other’s Experiences of the Light
This comes from the Advices and Queries of Britain Yearly Meeting: Take time to learn about other people’s experiences of the
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Being Attentive To the Paths of Intervention (Luke 1-6)
We began the study of the Gospel of Luke back at the beginning of July with an eye towards moments when the narrative turns ever so lightly, or sometimes rather abruptly, in a way
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Views on The Current Political Milieu: McClendon and Bonhoeffer
Yesterday, I read through McClendon’s chapter on Bonhoeffer’s life. In the chapter he explores Bonhoeffer’s influences, his theological and
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Meeting with a Mentor
I’ve been slowly working through one of Eugene Peterson’s books on pastoral ministry called “Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness. ” The book is a lot about Peterson’s own
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Simone Weil on Interventions
I’ve titled my sermon series on Luke “Interventions” and so was happy to see Simone Weil was (unsurprisingly) way ahead of
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Plan Ahead – Convergent Friends and New Monastics at Pendle Hill
Martin Kelley and I will be facilitating a weekend workshop at Pendle Hill this coming May (2010) that explores how tight-knit
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Interventions: Poetry on the Plain (Luke 6:20-49)
We opened with this video from Peter Rollins. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY8UEaIJAN0&w=425&h=344] [The part from this video that stood out to me and I
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The Cockeyed Poem on the Plain (based on the Sermon on the Plain Lk. 6)
Here’s my own take, a remix if you will, of some of the things going on in the Gospel of Luke
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Interventions: Feasting with Tyrants and Tax Collectors (Luke 5:27-39)
Here is the text I preached from on Sunday 8.2.2009. The reflection is on Luke 5:27-39. You can also subscribe to or download the audio version of the sermon from