Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance share their stories and discuss the need for alternative models of membership.
Emily Provance in Friends Journal
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Envisioning Broader Quaker Membership
Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance are members of the Alternate Pathways to Membership Working Group in New York Yearly Meeting under the care of the Ministry Coordinating Committee. Emily is a member of Fifteenth Street Meeting in Manhattan. Jennifer is in the process of moving her membership from South Berkshire Meeting in Great Barrington, Mass., to Fifteenth Street Meeting.
Posted in: June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, Online Features
Feeding Young Adults with a Taste of Abundance
Creating connections and building community through food.
Emily Provance, a member of Fifteenth Street Meeting in New York City, is called to a ministry of hearth building. She is an associate of Good News Associates, which supports non-institutional ministries.
NiaDwynwen Thomas, a member of Northampton (Mass.) Meeting, serves as New England Yearly Meeting's Quaker practice and leadership facilitator.
Posted in: Features, June/July 2019: Food Choices
The Grief and the Promised Land
Leaving behind the things that feel safe and comfortable.
Emily Provance, a member of Fifteenth Street Meeting in New York City, is called to a ministry of hearth building: that is, to the work of creating a home for Friends, a community rich with nourishing opportunities, so that each of us can then minister in the world, fully fed. She is an associate of Good News Associates, a nonprofit organization that supports non-institutional ministries.
Posted in: Features, Going Viral with Quakerism
Foodways and Folkways
Among Friends: Our introduction to the June鈥怞uly 2019 issue on Food Choices.
Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, June/July 2019: Food Choices
Growing and Evolving the Quaker Way
Our introduction to the August issue on Going Viral with Quakerism
Gabriel Ehri is executive director of聽Friends Journal.
Posted in: Among Friends, Going Viral with Quakerism, Unfeatured
Quaker Works October 2018
A semiannual feature to connect Friends Journal readers to the good works of Quaker organizations.
Posted in: Meetings and Money, Quaker Works
Quaker Works April 2017
A semiannual feature highlighting the recent works of Quaker organizations. Categories include Advocacy; Consultation, Support, and Resources; Development; Education; Environmental [鈥
Posted in: AFSC Centennial, Quaker Works
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