Friends Meetings

Recent Immigration Legislation and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Intermountain Yearly Meeting met in June 2010. Friends in this area of the country are especially concerned about immigration issues…

La Maison Quaker

Bright orange passion fruits hang from vines that cover most of a stuccoed stone wall and creep over the edges…

Twin Cities Meeting and Same-Gender Marriage

This November, Twin Cities Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, approved a minute stating that our meeting will no longer perform…

Clashing with the ‘B’ Word: Homophobia in Liberal Quakerism

Now that we are addressing the issue of same-gender marriages in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, I think it is pertinent to…

Spring Friends Meeting: A Success Story

A Friend and I were working in the basement of the Hege Library at Guilford College, sorting books for the…

Knowing Experimentally

In "Christ-Centeredness and Quaker Identity" (FJ July), R. Scot Miller writes that his "fear is that Quakerism will be swallowed…

Clerking: Better and Worse than I Imagined

For the last two years, I have had the good fortune to serve as clerk of our meeting. It was…

Diversity and Unity in the Religious Society of Friends

One of the trickiest tasks before the Religious Society of Friends today is embracing our diversity without losing our center,…

Four Pillars of Meeting for Business

In May 2007, the board of the School of the Spirit Ministries, on which I was serving, was in the…

On Quaker Unity

Unity during meeting for worship for attention to business is familiar to Quakers. It is a commitment to move forward…

Christ-Centeredness & Quaker Identity

I have a memory of a member of my monthly meeting responding to the news that some meetings have pastors,…

Three Weddings, One Marriage

We did not set out to have three weddings. We were both married before and were in our 50s and…
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