About
C. Wess Daniels
My wife Emily, our daughter L (seven months old) and I
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In Short
This website is dedicated to revealing and discussing issues around the church, our changing culture and how a faithful witness might be lived out. I am a PhD student at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena CA, and am in the School of Intercultural Studies working in the area of Western culture and peace church issues. My hope is to teach classes in a college or seminary setting on Church and Culture. As a Quaker, my interests lay in free church theology and practice. I am also interested in the growing green movement and how the church might embrace this as a call for the future. This blog covers these and other such related topics. I consider this my professional blog, where I write on topics that relate most to my areas of interest, if you are interested in more personal informal things please visit our family blog, Weird Fishes.
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A Bit More
I’m C. Wess Daniels, oldest of 9, born in Canton Ohio and currently living with my wife (since 2001), Emily (Miller) Daniels and our daughter codenamed “L”, in Southern California. We lived in canton and went to Malone College, where we met one another and fell in love.I finished Malone in 2002 with a bachelor’s in Bible and Theology and a minor in Philosophy.
We moved to Pasadena so I could go to grad school at Fuller Theological Seminary where I worked on my Masters of Arts in Theological Studies. Now I am doing my doctoral studies at Fuller under Dr. Ryan Bolger in the School of Intercultural Studies. My focus will be on the crisis of traditions in the postmodern world, how culture effects the practices of those traditions and what we might do about helping those traditions be faithful witnesses in the world today.
What I like about the discipline of missiology, of which I am a part, is that it will pulls from a variety of academic areas including, sociology, theology, philosophy and history - all things I am interested in. I work as an “Instructor-in-Training,” under my advisor, a professor I met in the spring of 2005 and realized that we had a lot of interests in common.
Even though I consider myself a Quaker my family currently attends Pasadena Mennonite Church, a church community we love because of their commitment to following Jesus and actively working towards mercy and justice in the world.
I have been blogging since 2/10/2003. My first blog was one xanga, where I learned about the basics of writing on the web, next as I looked to have more features I moved to blogger. My blog on blogspot.com is where I began to find a voice, created a site name (Gathering in Light) and began searching for people to dialogue with. In my blogger days, I started writing from a decidedly Quaker position on issues that I was learning and reading about, I discovered that there was a whole community of Quaker bloggers growing in cyberspace - we are all gathered together on QuakerQuaker.org. Meeting these Quakers over the internet has been a great joy for me because a) I’ve learned how to participate in a larger ongoing conversation with people from various backgrounds and theological presuppositions (and enjoy it) and b) I’ve made some really great friends all over the world.
In 2006 I purchased a domain and began using wordpress for my website (my site is currently hosted at (mt)). I have become even more interested and more focused in my attention to blogging and getting to know people around the web. I also help run the website convergentfriends.org, a site dedicated to helping resource the growing conversation between Quakers, the emerging church, and contemporary issues facing our tradition.
Some of my other hobbies include: Playing and writing music, making short films and music videos, backpacking, biking, smoking my meerschaum pipe my mom gave me and hanging out with my wife.
Please feel free to contact me or drop me an AIM instant message at gatheringinlight.
