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If You're Not Busy Being Born - Creating A Playlist of "Hymns" for Today
What is the role that music plays in the formation of our spiritual lives? Wess tells a little of his story of music and how it has shaped his life.
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The Underground Railroad Tree at Guilford College
This past week, I was asked to give a few remarks for a fundraiser at New Garden Friends Meeting for the organization, Every Campus a Refuge. If you don't know about "ECAR" you need to check it out. It was started at Guilford College by faculty
Continue reading →The Widow as Unsettling Force - Luke 18 Commentary
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
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?
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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Thieves, Bandits, Good Shepherds, and Church Forests
2025-05-12 - A message for First Friends Meeting in Greensboro, NC The text for the week (Although, I really drew on 10:1-18): “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own
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Where do we go from here?
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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