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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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Young Friends In Newcastle and Some Highlights
This past weekend I had the opportunity to go to Newcastle and hang out at the Young Friends General Meeting. Simon and
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Dress Down Friday | Vimto, Your Dad’s Pants and Lynx
I’m headed off to Newcastle (home of one of my favorites) for a Young Friends Gathering this weekend. But before I
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Meeting House Innovative? | Visual Arts and Creativity in Quakerism
Recently I had a great talk with a woman from Essex, and she goes to a Quaker meeting that’s doing some really cool stuff. I asked her about her meeting and she told
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Flickr-Slidr Slideshows for Your Blog (And UK Pictures)
Paul has created a great web app called flickrslidr that let’s you embed flickr images into you blog. Here got the
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Dress Down Friday | Picture Version
I thought I’d do the DDF a little differently today. Click on the picture below to see a bigger version with
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Towards a Post-Foundationalist Quaker Theology: Slavoj Zizek, Quietism and Pink Dandelion
Accepting the whole of a tradition and not just the parts I found Slavoj Zizeks opening to his book The Fragile Absolute, to be instructive for a present day study of Quaker theology.
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WP 2.2 Upgrade | Almost…
I upgraded my wordpress files this morning and it went pretty well, except that the theme I was using “Subtle” isn’t
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1970’s Convergent Friends? | A Brief History
My good friend Shawna from Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) sent this to a bunch of us the other day intimating at Convergent Friends being much older than we thought. A conference of Friends in
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Open Anabaptism and a Community of (in)outsiders
I’ve been meaning to comment on Jarrod McKenna’s thought worthy post which looks at the “Emerging Peace Church Movement” or what he likes to call “Open Anabaptism.” Through his various travels and
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… what larks! Some New Friends and New Words
jez and wess looking through the ‘young quakers’ t-shirt … what larks! Originally uploaded by Simon Latham. Since arriving in England I’ve been having a blast. There are at least two things that
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Orthodoxy As An Event and Questions About a Quaker Orthodoxy
Tony Jones, recently discussed a paper he read at Wheaton. In the paper he talks about the prospect of being an “anti-theologian,” (a designation I too find attractive) and orthodoxy as something that
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Dress Down Friday | Rush Limbaugh, 8-Bit Nintendo and Quakerpedia
Here’s another installment of Dress Down Friday! Another Radio DJ, Rush Limbaugh, is in trouble for being racially insensitive. He’s recently aired a racially charged song slamming Barack Obama. The Guardian reports,
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Gilbert and George Free Art From The Guardian
This is something I’d normally post in my dress down Friday’s but since it will be over by then I’
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Loving Ourselves To Death? A Theological Reflection of Jesus, Self-Love and Modernity
[This is cross-posted from the BYM blog] In the context of talking about Quaker work, one of our sessions yesterday, something was said about loving ourselves before we can love others. In this
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Dress Down Friday (on Saturday) | Vatican Board Games, A Barking Dog and A George Fox Video
Well this week’s been really good, and really busy. I’ve only got a couple treats for this week’s dress
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