Transgressing the Boundaries of Empire
Three Palm-Sunday Processionals That Show the Way Hello Friends, I hope that you found rest and restoration with the past weekend and are finding hope amidst so many tragedies, from the natural ones to the
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Mid-Week Notes: Being Connected vs Belonging
Is Imitation Better than the Real Thing? The sermon this Sunday at our meeting was on the topic of belonging. It was a great message that I’m still thinking about. Belonging is a topic
Rebuilding the Collection: One Record and One Story at a Time
Content warning: Mention and discussion about suicide. Yesterday I went to the record store with my wife and 10 year old son C to work on building my collection. I love visiting record stores not
A Little An Aside About The Quaker Nomad
In my last post, I wrote about Natalie Ramsland’s zine-making Quaker Project, Fold in the Light. It’s fresh, original, and inspiring. But I left out an aside I wanted to share here: One
Fold in The Light – A New Quaker Zine Project
A few weeks back, I got some mail from someone I didn’t know. As I opened it, these cute little booklets fell out, and a letter addressed to me: Hello, Mr. Daniels. The letter
Let’s Get Bored Together: The Practice of Silence and Resisting the Attention Economy
I am teaching a class this semester at Guilford College called, “The Practice of Silence.” The class is both what it sounds like and a lot more. We are studying the Quaker theology behind the
Bless this Mess: Beatitudes For Today
What would be a local list of the beatitudes for your community look like if you were to make one? Lia Scholl, pastor of First Friends Meeting here in Greensboro, recently preached on Mt 5
Confronting Beastly Economics – An Anti-Imperial Look at Revelation 13
I have a chapter called “Beastly Economics” in the book, We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible With the Poor People’s Campaign. In the chapter, I discuss the concept of the “Mark of the Beast”
Learn as we Lead: Victims of Empire and The Great Multitude in Revelation 7
I was asked to share a little during the season of “Learn as We Lead,” for the Freedom Church of the Poor on the abuses and misuses of the Book of the Revelation. On Sunday
“I Know That I am a thought in God” – Sermon for Advent
This is the message I gave at Deep River Friends Meeting December 16, 2022 based on Luke 1: 46-55: 46 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit rejoices in God
Grief is Disconnection
A repost from November 16, 2022 Today, I was approached by a member of my workplace about hosting a space for grieving for folks who continue to struggle after painful decisions made in 2019-2020. The
An Interview About the Quaker World
Robert Bell, from Guilford College, interviewed me and did a really nice write up about the new book Rhiannon Grant and I co-edited. The book is unique in its approach to Quaker Studies for a