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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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Stations of the Lord’s Prayer (A Worship Resource)
This past weekend at our convergent Quaker retreat we had both programmed (planned) and unprogrammed (silent) worship. For the programmed worship on Saturday morning I planned an interactive worship time based around the Lord’
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Reflections From The Convergent Retreat 2009
Since Martin and Robin, the two co-leaders with me of this past weeken’s retreat, have already written their first I
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Dress-Down Friday | Moons, Red Dresses, and Trilogies
Dress-Down Friday Installment #3,027.5 * Quaker Ranter Martin writes about Margaret Fell’s red dress and the challenge she posed
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Three Features of Everett Cattell’s Mission Theology
In preparation for the convergent Friends retreat this weekend I have been putting together some discussion notes on Everett Cattell. I will be presenting him as a “convergent Friend of the past” on Saturday
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Following the Convergent Retreat This Weekend
I’ve mentioned a few times that a bunch of us are getting together this weekend in Northern California for a convergent
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A More Authentic Fundamentalism (Peter Rollins)
This quote is from Peter Rollins who will be in Hollywood speaking on his Evandalism tour March 1 and 2. In the
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Dress-Down Friday | Bolt, Naomi Klein and Coffee
It’s been a while since I posted a “Dress-Down Friday” post so today seemed like a good day to get
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Digging Up the Roof: The Kingdom Moment and the Paralytic in Mark 2:1-12
This is the sermon I gave this past Sunday on Mark’s story about Jesus and the paralytic. When he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.
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New York Quakers On Torture
The New York Yearly Meeting of Quakers put a minute together on torture and then made a video of people reading it.
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Plan B: The Church (John Caputo)
In preparing for a sermon the other day I came across one of my favorite quotes from John Caputo’s book, “What
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The Paralytic as Missionary (Mark 2:1-12)
I’m putting together a sermon on Mark 2:1-12 where Jesus meets, and heals, the paralytic. As I was talking
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A 21st Century Good Samaritan: Deidox’s Story of “Robert”
Last week I heard about the new project Brent Gudgel, Dan Portnoy and clan have been working on called “Deidox” from twitter. I’ve posted about some of Brent’s work before: The New
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Great New Tunes for 2009
Last year, I felt, was kind of void for me when it came to new music. That is one reason why I
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Is It The End Of Our SUV Lifestyle?
I just finished reading Tom Sine’s recent book, “The New Conspirators: Creating The Future One Mustard Seed at a Time,” for a review in a Friends’ periodical. It’s a book I highly
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Witnessing History: Barack Obama Becomes President
Yesterday, we witnessed history-in-the-making; NY Times headline reads: Obama Takes Oath, and Nation in Crisis Embraces the Moment. Wherever
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