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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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Wittenburg Door on Mark Driscoll
Most of you know about Mark Driscoll, he’s a mainstream pastor from Seattle with a church of about 6,000 people.
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Remixing Faith in the 21st Century (Barclay Press)
I’ve posted my June essay on Barclay press if you care to have a read (it’s nice and long!). Here’s and excerpt: This past April Radiohead did another thing that sparked
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Rufus Jones’ Future Hope
Here’s a nice long quote from Rufus M. Jones about what he hopes to see in the future of Friends. The quote comes from a lecture he gave at the Baltimore Young Friends
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Returning to Woodbrooke
It’s been really nice to return to Woodbrooke Quaker Study Center this past week. I’ve been here now for about
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NT Wright on The Colbert Report
One of my favorite New Testament scholars Anglican Bishop NT Wright was on my favorite evening talk show, The Colbert Report. On
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Douglas Gwyn and the Convergent-Covenant
Just came across these two quotes from Quaker historical-theologian Douglas Gwyn’s book “The Covenant Crucified,” and it got me thinking about some of the work I did in a previous project I’
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Boycotting Amazon (And Borders and B&N)
[[Warning Containing Rant]] I’m joining Dan in his Amazon crusade (see here and here), which basically means, I’m not selling books on there (I pulled all my for sale books down today
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Rocketboom on Epistemology
The daily video blog Rocketboom “explains” epistemology yesterday, very interesting to watch. What are you thoughts on it? One problem is that
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McClendon on Convictions and Pluralism
Last week, I read James Wm. McClendon and James M. Smith’s book “Convictions: Defusing Religious Relativism,” it’s a highly recommended
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Goldingay on The “Wrathful” OT God
Scot McKnight is slowly blogging through “Old Testament Theology Volume 2,” by one of my absolute favorite professors from Fuller John Goldingay.
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Peace Church Colleges Debate Having Armed Guards
The other day in a Washington Times article there is a discussion about peace church colleges working through questions about whether to employ armed guards for student protection. Two Church of the Brethren schools
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Who’s Your Patron Quaker (non)Saint?
While I was at QUIP a few weeks back a woman asked the youth editorial board if we had Quaker patron saints.
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Quaker Youth Book Call for Submissions
I’ve written about the upcoming Quaker Youth Book project I’m working with and said we would soon be giving our
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Presenting on Convergent Friends at FAHE in June
So much for a really creative title! It was the best I could think of at this hour. Anyways, Last year at
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More Yoder on Faithfulness and Tradition
I’ve been working through a number of John Howard Yoder’s texts in the last week, reading what he had to
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