Friends Meetings

Young People’s Empowerment Convergence

In late June 2007, the first Young People’s Empowerment Convergence (YPEC) was held on Snipes Farm in Morrisville, Pa. The…

Strengths, Weaknesses, and Clerking

I was minding my own business one day when the idea came to me that someday, someone would ask me…

How Monthly Meetings Can Support Their Youth

I first came to meeting when I was five years old, with my parents and my stuffed frog. The frog…

”Building Multigenerational Community within Monthly Meetings

One of the most powerful moments of my spiritual journey when I was growing up came when the youth director…

It Takes a Meeting to Raise a Quaker

You can raise a Quaker without First-day school, without lesson plans, even without figuring out "what every Quaker child needs…

Friendly Partners Program

When our Quaker children become teenagers our meetings lose touch with them. They seem to disappear into the abyss of…

Threshold Choirs

Five years ago, after attending a workshop by Richard Lee on Meetings for Healing, I started a Meeting for Healing…

Accessibility and Worship

Introduction Most people will find themselves with a serious long-term limitation of mobility, hearing, sight, mental capacity, or emotional functioning…

Contentious and divisive

I have read many articles in Friends Journal over the years, but the article “Misunderstanding Quaker Faith and Practice” (FJ…

On the Significance of Benches

In the final worship at a recent session of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), I found myself reflecting on the keynote…

A Quaker Speaks from the Black Experience

The history, role, and involvement of African Americans in the Religious Society of Friends have been subjects of long-standing interest…

Things I Ponder while Sitting in Meeting

Nearly every Sunday morning we have visitors to our Quaker meeting for worship. They enter the front door tentatively, peering…
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