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News October 2017

News from Wilmington Yearly Meeting, the Foulkeways community, and Zimbabwe.

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Meeting Stressors

Nine dynamics that challenge our worship communities.

Heather M. Cook

New York Yearly Meeting adopts yearly meeting membership

  ew York Yearly Meeting (NYYM) approved “at large membership” (membership through the yearly meeting instead of through a local…

Staff

Helping Young People Feel Welcome

At University Friends Meeting in Seattle, Washington, we have several systems in place to make sure children new to the…

Dana B. Standish

Friends and the Earth Charter

For me, September 9, 2001, was a day filled with hope and joy, in contrast to the tragic events that…

Ruah Swennerfelt

Envisioning Broader Quaker Membership

Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance share their stories and discuss the need for alternative models of membership.

Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance

News, June/July 2017

News: Albuquerque Friends provide sanctuary; Friends engage in immigrant work; Bridge Film Festival announces winners; Earlham College receives $7.5 million gift; Oread Friends install a Little Free Library.

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Yearly meetings go virtual

In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, many yearly meetings annual sessions will be held virtually.

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The Quaker Sweat Lodge

My experience growing up in a Quaker meeting has been, in part, the catalyst for my present ministry with youth.…

George Price

The Experience of Friends Meeting

Responses from Members and Attenders Starting in May 2005, I sent out a questionnaire to members and attenders of Friends…

David E. Drake