1. 2022 Fandoms

    I’m someone who loves being a fan and loves fandom. If you know me, you know that when I get into something, I am really into it. I love sharing my love with

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    Remaking a Quaker Studies Syllabus Using The Quaker World

    With the publication of our new book Quaker World, I am having fun remaking my syllabus for my Introduction to Quakerism class

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    A Ritual to Read to Each Other by William E. Stafford

    I love William Stafford‘s poetry. I came across him when we were still living in the Pacific Northwest where he is

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  4. Rebuilding (Social) Presence

    Reposted from Nurselog Notes January 19, 2019 I quite Facebook. I threatened to do it, mostly just to myself, years before, but then the Cambridge Analytics stuff came out, and there was so much

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    Testimony as Consequence, Not Value by Pink Dandelion Reading Notes

    Here are my reading notes of Pink Dandelion’s “Testimony as Consequence, Not Value” from Friends Quarterly Vol 35. No 5 2007.

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  6. Transitions, Clean Breaks, and The Work of Becoming a People – Ex. 14

    This was the sermon I preached at First Friends Meeting Greensboro, NC on October 9, 2022. It is from Exodus 14. Trauma and the Red Sea This morning I want to speak on the

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    When the Wine Gives Out (John 2:1-11)

    The Wine Gave Out? A number of years ago, when I was working on my dissertation, I spent three months in England

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    Quaker Exceptionalism, Jesus, and Movement Building (Mark 9:33-41)

    Mark 9:33 Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing

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  9. When We Need Bread (John 6)

    This past weekend, I had the pleasure of preaching for College Park Baptist just up the street on chapter 6 of the Gospel of John. “I am the bread of life.” -Jesus At Guilford

  10. What is Born of God? 1 John 5 – A Mother’s Day Sermon

    This is a message I gave to First Friends Meeting. I also shared a version of it for Freedom Church of the Poor. > 1 John 5:1-5   Everyone who believes that Jesus

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    Planning to Leave Hey Due to Policy Changes

    Here is an Email I wrote today to the support team at hey.com. I sent this and post it here because

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    Becoming Co-Workers With The Truth

    When George Fox was initially on his spiritual quest to understand the true nature of faith and Christianity, he was living in

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    Systems of Death and the Subversive Seed (John 12:24)

    Watercolor from John Jay Alvaro Watch it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/arGhrrsFTxc The Subversive Seed This week, we saw the

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  14. A Summary of The 5 Interlocking Evils

    Reposting this to my blog for safekeeping. Originally published via my “Resisting Empire” newsletter on Oct 30, 2020. How do you name immorality? Do the words sin and evil find their way into your

  15. The Problem with (Quaker) Values

    Originally published on my “Resisting Empire, Remixing Faith” Newsletter. As you may have seen, there is another flair up in the news about another Quaker school being caught in a debate around Quaker values.