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Author interview with Katie Breslin, of “Quaker Meetings Respond to Coronavirus”

An interview with Katie Breslin about her article on how Friends Meetings are handling coronavirus.
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Book Clubs of Friends Meetings

Friends share what their meetings are reading. Staff

Elders Among Us

Take a look around you the next time you gather with your meeting community. You come into meeting for worship…

The Task of the Recording Clerk: Spiritual Exercise and Ministry

or me, the first step in all aspects of living, including recording the minutes of a meeting, is the personal…

Quaker Organizations Welcome New Leaders

In recent months there have been numerous changes in the executive leadership of several Quaker organizations. Some observers have even…

Reflections on Clerking a Quaker Committee

Soon after I became involved in the Quaker faith, I was told that anytime Quakers meet, it is a meeting…

A Friends Meeting Looks at Money and Time

Palo Alto (Calif.) Meeting was truly inspired by the Friends Journal special issue on Friends and Money (July 2006). I…

Jeremiah and the Clearness Committee

The clearness committee settled into a hopeful silence. There were only three of them, deliberately a small group. They didn’t…

Stewardship – Thoughts From a Friend

Although the Kenya-Moses Brown project highlights one way Friends schools in the United States can build relationships with Friends schools…

Reading During Meeting for Worship

On occasion, our meeting discusses the propriety of reading during meeting for worship. Some people do. They read Friends Journal,…

When Quakers Disagree

Guess what? Quakers have disagreements among themselves and in their monthly meetings for business. Nothing unusual about that— we’re human,…

Heavenly Tones: Stylized Vocal Ministry of the 18th and 19th Centuries

We contemporary Friends tend to idealize Friends from earlier times—they stayed close to the Spirit, we think. They knew what…
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