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Vibrant Meetings Grow the Religious Society of Friends

[…] of spiritual inspiration that nourish our souls. Places where spoken ministry sometimes moves us to tears or stuns us by […]

Lynn Fitz-Hugh

Facing a Fractured Quakerism

[…] and had adopted a system of programmed worship and pastoral ministry not much different from other Protestants. Some Friends who […]

Thomas Hamm

Shake before Opening

[…] of us experience an internal struggle before participating in vocal ministry. The shy child within us can hold us back. […]

Chip Thomas

The Unifying Vision of Quakers

[…] interests and questions I see newcomers bringing to our meetings: Ministry Visitors and newcomers to our meetings often ask, "Well, […]

Thomas H. Jeavons

On West

[…] longer. I have been asking myself why there isn’t a ministry to nursing homes. Especially, why isn’t there a ministry […]

Wayne Busby

What I Learned from Rachel Hicks

[…] gift, and she began the traveling (and often quite strenuous) ministry to the various Hicksite yearly and monthly meetings. This […]

Sr. Rachel West

June/July 2025 Books

Sowing the Seed of Truth: Orthodox Quaker Sermons of Murray Shipley (1873–1876)

[…] son of Friends from New York. His gift in the ministry was minuted in the traditional way in 1868 when […]

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

Features

Risking Faithfulness

[…] to minister to us today. The self-examination that characterized his ministry is classically Quietist, but he was exceptional in carrying […]

Jade Rockwell

Online Features

Worshiping in the Fog

[…] in meeting for worship, including while Friends are giving vocal ministry. In Experiment with Light meditations on my own, I […]

Allison Kirkegaard

Online Features

A Person of Yin and Yang

[…] name from the way some people quaked when offering vocal ministry to the meeting.  From the silence, the first message-giver […]

Margin Tianya Zheng