Sermons
Attention and Empire's Algorithms (Guest Speaker: C. Wess Daniels)
C. Wess Daniels is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College. He is the author of A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing The Quaker Tradition in Participatory Culture (2015), Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation (2019), contributor to We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign (2021), and the co-editor with Rhiannon Grant of The Quaker World (2022). Wess is a recorded Quaker minister committed to liberation theology, anti-imperial expressions of Christianity, and working towards the revitalization of faith traditions that embody love and justice in our communities around the world.
Into the Unknown
Queries:
When have you been nudged to leave the known for the unknown? Did you respond to the call? How did that go? If you haven’t responded yet, what holds you back?
Who are those in our world, distant or close, stranger or friend, who have left the known for the unknown? How were they received by others or by us?
Spiritual Stuff
Queries:
What regular practices of Love are present in your life?
What Love practices might you take up, to nurture and express the Love within?
Shifts (Mari Kay Evans-Smith, Jose Thomas, Erica Stupfel, Richard Wing)
Mari Kay, Richard, Jose, and Erica will be sharing about their recent trip with Friends International Medical Teams to The Gambia. FIMT is a group of health care providers and interpreters who bring free medical care to underserved populations in our international community.This year we collaborated with the Kalabash Academy, a school for boys that emphasizes both academics and soccer. Together we provided healthcare visits to over 1000 patients.
Light Within, Light Shared
Queries:
What does it mean to be “the light of the world”?
What can dampen or conceal people’s light?
How can we shine our light? How can we help others shine their light?
What do we need to shine a light on? What needs to be made clear?
What alternative metaphors capture the heart of what Jesus is saying?
How to Survive Empire
Queries:
What’s the heart of Jesus’s message in the Beatitudes? What’s his main idea?
Which of these nine beatitudes are most striking to me today? Why?
Who does this text bring to my mind and heart?
What actions does this text prompt me to consider taking, and with whom?
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