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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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Class Lecture Day
Today Ryan gave me the opportunity to lecture in his Church in Mission class (I am the aid for the class). This
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Advent and The Gift of Life (Luke 1:57-80)
Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.
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Dress Down Friday | Black, Buy Nothing, Turkey Carcass Edition
Happy Dress Down (Black) Friday, and since it’s Black Friday that also means it’s Buy Nothing Friday, which I am
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Blog Awareness: Mockingbird’s Leap, Advent Conspiracy and Jesusland
Here are a few blogs I think you should check out this week. Be sure to take a look at what Glenn
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A Day Trip to AAR to Have Theological Discussions on Quakerism
I had the chance to have a little road trip and drive down on Friday to San Diego and go to AAR
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Goodbye Lexan Nalgenes
Emily and I have been tugging around Nalgene water bottles for the past 8 years (as long as we’ve known each
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Readers of Gathering In Light on Facebook
While running the risk of being completely shameless in blog promotion, I decided to start a “Readers of Gathering in Light” facebook
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Church in Mission: Translation and The Bi-Lingual Community (Pt.3)
This is the third part of the Church in Mission series where I am attempting to appropriate some of John Howard Yoder’s thinking in direct relationship to the mission of the church in
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Wendell Berry on The Earth as Other
The earth is what we all have in common. It is what we are made of and what we live from, and we cannot damage it without damaging those with whom we share it.
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An Emerging Profession: Sharing Power In A Flattened World
Drew Ditzel asked me, along with a number of other bloggers (see below), to participate in a project he is doing for his class on emerging models of church at Columbia Seminary. Drew wants
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A Blog Makeover
I’ve been getting a little antsy about my blog design lately so I thought I’d update it a little. I
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Dress Down Friday | The Looksee, Philosophy and the Leavers
Here is this week’s installment of Dress Down Friday. * The Prius just turned 10! I can’t believe it’s been
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Karl Barth and the Mystery of God the Creator
What the meaning of God the Creator is and what is involved in the work of creation, is itself not less hidden from us men [ sic ] than everything else that is contained in the
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Church in Mission: Culture and Jesus The Missionary Pt 2.
This post is a part of a series where I am addressing the churchs mission as it pertains (or doesnt) to relevancy within culture. I am trying to build the majority of