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Liturgies of Empire, Liturgies of Resistance: Quaker Faith and Practice in an Age of Empire

  • Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust 320 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA, 19106 United States (map)

Join Wess Daniels on Wednesday, September 3rd from 7 pm to 8:30 pm for a virtual Zoom presentation.

Resisting Empire is a series Wess Daniels has been developing since long before the release of his first book, "Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance" (2019 - Barclay Press). Since that publication, Wess has been working applying lessons from that previous project to Quaker movement and what Quaker practice looks like today. In this presentation, Wess will unpack the importance of seeing how various liturgies shape us and lay groundwork for Quakers to consider ways of resisting empire today.


About the Presenter

Wess Daniels is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center & Quaker Studies at Guilford College. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with his wife, Emily and their three children. He has a Master's of Theology and P.hD. in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. Wess teaches Quaker studies at Guilford College and has taught at Earlham School of Religion, George Fox Seminary, Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, and Pendle Hill.


He is widely published in Quaker publications including Quaker Studies, Quaker Religious Thought, Friends Journal, and more. He is the author of, “Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance” (2019) and “A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing The Quaker Tradition in Participatory Culture” (2015). He is an associate editor on the Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies, and the co-editor on the forthcoming book, The Quaker World (Routledge, 2022).


Wess is active in the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and is a founding member of the weekly Freedom Church of the Poor, an online worship service that lifts up the stories of the poor and dispossessed and has met every week since Covid19 began. He recently contributed to the book, “We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign” edited by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis (2021). His teaching and writing focus on liberating spirituality, revitalizing faith traditions, and renewing community for the work of liberation and justice in the world.

Earlier Event: September 3
Educational Saturday: Silhouettes
Later Event: September 23
Movie Night at ASMH