Meeting for Worship

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,…

Learning to Speak Community

Last fall in a Quakerism 101 group I facilitated at Cincinnati Friends Meeting, a Friend spoke of a recent conversation…

An Unspoken Message

As often happens in the silence of meeting for worship, I felt a message coming within me, which was not…

Pentecost Sunday in Quaker Meeting

In spite of walking in the cold rain after meeting for worship on Pentecost Sunday, I smiled. I enjoy meeting…

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…

Why the World Needs Quaker Meeting

Sometimes we hated it. Passing through the large white doors of the Assembly Hall, our restive, unruly class somehow transforms…

My Journey among Friends

I found the Religious Society of Friends when I was in middle school. An unpopular, misunderstood, "sensitive" child, I didn’t…

A Practice of Such Gentle Collective Ecstasy

I have come early to Friends meeting this morning. I sit alone in a room that is sparse and welcoming,…

Joy of the Spirit

Finding My Center: Reflections from a Term at Pendle Hill

"Waiting upon the Lord in silence"—what an odd phrase, I thought—when, in my Moravian tradition, you sang praises to God…

Walk Tall: Spoken Ministry among Friends

I came out of the grocery store carrying a small bag and almost immediately spoke in meeting. There, not 50…

Friends and Cyberspace

My interest in Quakerism has grown steadily over the past decade during my tenure as an English teacher and more…
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