Sermons
Extended Open Worship
How does my faith lead me to participate in creating positive social change? Where is urgent action needed today to bring justice, peace, equity, and safety? What tables need to be overturned? Who/what needs to be driven out? Why is the Quaker voice needed in our world today? What do people need to hear from us?
Resurrection is Liberation
Queries:
What is important to me about this story?
What do I notice about resurrection and liberation in this story?
What do I notice about power in this story?
What do I notice about “the heart” in this story?
Wisdom in Challenging Times
Queries:
What sustains you through challenging times?
Where do you find the Divine in challenging times?
What wisdom do you possess that can help you, or us, in the challenges we are facing?
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?
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