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C Wess Daniels

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.

  1. Does Jesus Have Anything to Do With Our Politics?

    Well the political world is in a frenzy these days, everyone’s making speculations, mud is being thrown in every direction and some of us are picking sides (The first and last link are

  2. Homo Sacer and Civilized Racism?

    In Slavoj Zizek’s book on September 11, “Welcome to the Desert of The Real,” he discusses the idea behind Homo sacer, in order to describe the kind of racism we often find within

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    Dress Down Friday | Save Time In Ultimate Reality

    1. AJ asks what do you call your church? It’s a good question. 2. The iPhone popularity is spreading. 3. If

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    Thoughts on Riding a Fixed-Gear Bike

    About four years ago I came across a video of some people riding fixed-gear bicycles, and I was instantly intrigued by

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    New On The Shelf | Corey Beals, Carole Spencer and David Yount

    This week I have three new Quaker books I wanted to share with all of you. “Holiness: The Soul of Quakerism” is

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  6. Four Models of Emerging Churches

    I’ve had a lot of vested interest in the emerging church for a number of years now, partly because of my own previous experience in communities that reflected many of the qualities present

  7. Sit Back And Relax

    Chillin to In Rainbows from wess on Vimeo. This is our first music video, Cindy Lou Who (her decided pseudonym) loves listening to Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” probably cause it’s about the only

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    Dress Down Friday | No Sweat Chucks, McClendon’s Blog and Evil Hot Dogs

    This is another installment of Dress Down Friday, thank you all who sent me links this week, and as always you are

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  9. Church in Mission: Five Practices For The Church in the World (pt. 5)

    Series contents | Introduction | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five For this last post in my church in mission series I want to explain the five practices that John Howard Yoder offers the

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    Dress Down Friday | Solar-Powered Trees and Australian Art

    * I missed the live Radiohead webcast on New Year’s eve, but fortunately enough it’s still online at Current.com and

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    Thanks, Rose Bowl Parade, For The Trash!

    As most of you know yesterday was a big day here in Pasadena because of the annual Rose Bowl Parade. People started

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    Roll Call for Friends of Gathering In Light

    As for our first order of buisness of the new year I’d like to open the floor up to all of

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    A Year With Gathering In Light 2007

    Last year I did a year in review of this site, and I remember enjoying the time I took to go through

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    Five New Skills In Just One Week

    I was thinking the other day how my resume is drastically changing with the birth of our daughter, here are some new

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    My Favorite Albums and Artists Of 2007

    Since it’s almost the end of 2007 it’s time to post some of my favorite albums of the year. I

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