Good Order of Friends

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…

Quaker Baptism

A few years ago I was sitting on the sofa in George and Theresa Walumoli’s living room listening to a…

Writing Personal Queries

We Friends have queries instead of creeds. Creeds are statements of beliefs. Queries are questions asking to what degree we…

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…

Friends within God's Light

My initial experiences of traditional Quaker worship left me wondering just how Friends, working within Western Christian teaching, had essentially…

Christ-Centeredness & Quaker Identity

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

Are We Christian?

In his book Why Friends are Friends, Jack Willcuts claims that the first thing to say about us Quakers is…

The Nurture of Quaker Marriages

This article has two themes, both of which address what it means to be married under the care of the…

FGC's Couple Enrichment Program

Friends General Conference’s Couple Enrichment Program is a ministry of couples who, recognizing the divine center of committed relationships, support…

A Case for Eldering and Discipline

Modern Friends are often uncomfortable with the term eldering. It conjures up negative images of scolding old men wagging their…
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