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Tag Archives | Meeting for Worship
April 2018 Full Issue Access
Members can download the full PDF or read any article online (see links below). Features: “Nurturing Growth and Healing through Stories” by Astuti Bijlefeld, “Balancing Acts” by Ruthe Schoder-Ehri, “Meeting for Worship for Healing” by Richard K. Lee and Sarah M. Lloyd, “The Cost of a Healing Gift” by John Jeremiah Edminster. Poetry: “A Day of Waiting” […]
FJ Members can download the full PDF of the April issue or read any article online.
Posted in: Full Access, Healing
Meeting for Worship for Healing
A largely forgotten Quaker practice brings healing and wholeness once more.
Book Clubs of Friends Meetings
Friends share what their meetings are reading.
Posted in: Features, November 2014: Books and Writing
Exploring the Unwritten Rules of Meeting for Worship
How does an internalized sense of rules influence the quality of meeting for worship?
Debbie Humphries is a member of Hartford (Conn.) Meeting. She carries a concern for the strength and vitality of the Religious Society of Friends. Her experience traveling among Friends has provided an opportunity to hear how the Spirit is moving among us, and to reflect deeply on how our practices—our forms—both nurture and limit the life of the Spirit among us.
Posted in: August 2014, Features
A New Year’s top five: The most popular articles of 2013
We’ve been sharing our most-read articles of 2012 on Facebook and Twitter. Here they are along with highlights from the issues in which they originally appeared.
Posted in: Online Features
The Way We Sit in Meeting for Worship
Sitting is essential to life as a primate. The fact that we have the ischial tuberosity—the “sitz bone”—is perhaps as important to the evolution of Homo sapiens as is the opposable thumb. We can sit, eat, and ponder—it’s what makes us human. But no one pays attention to sitting. People write books about almost every […]
James Zug, a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting, is the author of six books, including The Long Conversation: 125 Years of Sidwell Friends School, 1883–2008. His latest book, Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear, was published in November 2010.
Posted in: Features
An Experience of Silent Worship
A woman sits in the circle, waiting, hands resting in her lap. A burgundy wool shawl flows over her shoulders, its tips nestling on her forearms. She has traveled far to be in this circle, in this chair by the window, to wait in expectant silence. She and three men and three women have been […]
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