Southern California Quarterly Meeting

Here are some links and resources to accompany Wess’ talk “Jesus Against Empire” for the Southern California Quarterly Meeting fall gathering from 2020-11-08.

What I can do in the context of the rich world is minute and without risk in comparison with the great traditions of resistance. The issues is not to venerate heroes but together to offer resistance, actively and deliberately and in very diverse situations, against becoming habituated to death, something that is one of the spiritual foundations of the culture of the First World.

• Dorotee Soelle The Silent Cry

📽 Here are the slides from today’s talk for download

📖 Article: Between Reality and Possibility – C. Wess Daniels (click arrow on left to expand) Download PDF

🗞 Weekly Email Newsletter:

• Remixing Faith, Resisting Empire

• Newsletter on 5 Interlocking Evils
• More Newsletters on the [[Quaker Values]] in relation to Empire & Apprenticing

📚 Wess’ Books:

• Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance: 
  • http://resistingempire.com
• A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the the Quaker Tradition in Participatory Culture
  • Independent bookseller
  • Amazon (and kindle)

Books and References in the Talk:

• God Bless the Grass – Malvina Reynolds
• Book: Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism by Drew Hart
• Book: Come Out, My People!: God’s Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond by Wes Howard-Brook
• PPC – Our Demands (And the 5 Evils) – Poor People’s Campaign
• Book: Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
• Article: Understanding “The Poor Will Always Be With You” By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
• Book: Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor
• Freedom Church of the Poor Weekly Service Sunday at 6pm ET
• Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way (Facets)
• The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance – Dorothee Soelle
• The Cross and the Lynching Tree – James Cone
• Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death by Howard Thurman

Other Resources Mentioned:

• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Contact:

• Blog – Website: https://www.gatheringinlight.com
• Email: wess@hey.com
• Twitter: @cwdaniels