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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 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 the world. For more information read his newsletter at: http://gatheringinlight.com

Essays

The Parable of the Widow as an Unsettling Force

This parable is very much about the widow being a “new and unsettling force in the complacent life” of this unrighteous judge and the structures which incentivize his brutality. To speak of the widow in terms of unsettling force is anything but a stretch in this text. In fact, I think you might be surprised at the turn that is coming.