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The Widow as Unsettling Force - Luke 18 Commentary

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I was asked to write for the Political Theology website for the upcoming lectionary reading, Luke 18:1-8. This parable is well-known sometimes thought of as "the persistent widow and corrupt judge." My reading takes it in a different direction. Like all of Jesus' parables, this one

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Attention and Empire's Algorithms

Attention and Empire's Algorithms

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This was a message I shared with First Friends Meeting in Greensboro this past Sunday based in part by the parable of the Good Samaritan found in Luke 10. Empire's Algorithms I have been thinking a lot about attention recently. I've been developing a first year

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Who Gave Us Guilford College?

Who Gave Us Guilford College?

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Dear readers, this is an essay I have been working on in my role as the Director Friends Center at Guilford College. Some of you may know I have worked at Guilford for 10 years now in both a staff and faculty role, teaching Quaker studies and leading our office

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Where do we go from here?

Where do we go from here?

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2025-04-05 Presented during the 400th Anniversary Review of Fox's birthday Context: I was asked to offer a playful, imaginative presentation as a last thought for our day long conference looking at George Fox's 400th birthday (last year) and what was learned from those events and where

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Gathering In Light Redesign

Gathering In Light Redesign

I've been working on the redesigned of the site over the last few weeks using Claude Code. I have always enjoyed working on website designs, and have a number of favorite custom designs in the history of Gathering in Light.

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Updating My Tools

Updating My Tools

This morning, after listening to the most recent episode of the Pen Addict, I was inspired to create an "analog defaults" page with the pens and notebooks I use everyday.

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Story Boarding Fiction

Story Boarding Fiction

Some of what I have been doing in my morning writing and research time is trying my hand at a dystopian short story about AI going to a Quaker meeting. I hope to share that here sometime soon, once I find myself out of the editing phase.

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Scenes from an Igloo (Class)

Scenes from an Igloo (Class)

As I mentioned earlier, I built a homemade igloo this weekend with my kids. As a result of all this snow we’re getting here in North Carolina, we had a remote day today at the college where I teach. With having classes today, I knew I had Zoom on the docket for today.

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Coming to PNW this March

I’m visiting PNW Quakers putting March (7-8) for three "talks." The first is a workshop I'm offering at the Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends Quarterly Meeting in Camas, WA (Camas Friends Church). Here’s the working title and description: Endless Revolution - The Lamb’s War a

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Looking for Privacy Focused Blogging Platforms

Looking for Privacy Focused Blogging Platforms

My beloved WordPress is becoming more and more corporate and finding more and more ways to tie data-tracking and AI into their product. I’ve used the self-hosted WordPress install for most of my blog’s existence, but even this version of the platform is showing signs of data-mining, namely the many

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On The Rebound

On The Rebound

My son has recently gotten interested in basketball. This has had an unintended consequence. Up until now, he has not showed much interest in it but his friends at his new school invited him to join the 5-6th grade basketball team. One weekday evening in early February he let Emily and I know he wa

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Riding Uhwarrie National Forest

Riding Uhwarrie National Forest

About 50 miles south of where we live is the Uhwarrie National Forest 51,000+ acres lying just West of Badin Lake. I have been down to Uhwarrie a couple times, once of my motorcycle, and once with the family for hiking. As I’ve been getting more into cycling, and especially “gravel” riding, I’ve bee

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