C. Wess Daniels is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. His book "A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture" was published in February and is available through Wipf & Stock.
Wess, a Quaker minister, educator, researcher and public theologian, has been working toward cultivating renewal among all branches of the Religious Society of Friends. He served as Quaker pastor at Camas (Wash.) Friends church for more than five years. As a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary in California, he created a model of renewal for use by Quakers and all faith traditions. He received his Ph.D. from Fuller’s School of Intercultural Studies in 2014.
His wife, Emily (Miller) Daniels '03, will be teaching English to 7th and 8th-grade students at Mendenhall Middle School. The Daniels have three children.