Worship

Quaker Bestsellers 2016

The top ten best-selling books from the 2016 FGC Gathering. Quakerbooks of FGC

Beatrice Ridgway Carson

Carson—Beatrice Ridgway Carson, 95, of Oakford, Pa., on May 16, 2016. Bea was born on September 5, 1920, in Bucks…

Rising up: Ministry at the World Gathering of Friends

Ministry and silence delivered at the World Conference in Kenya

Those Other Branch Quakers

“Be careful of those ‘other branch’ Quakers.” These words were spoken to me at a recent Wednesday evening Bible study by…

Where Do Friends Worship?

On February 20, 2011, there was two feet of snow on the ground in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Five people, dressed like…

Understanding Ourselves, Respecting the Differences

Quakers sometimes view conflicts between the branches of our faith as trivial. These conflicts, however, express real differences, and we should…

FGC, FUM types of worship

I became a Liberal unprogrammed Friend in a conservative state. The small, family-like meeting I eventually joined was a little…

An Ecology of the Spirit

In meeting this past First Day, I started working on the similarities and differences between ministry and pastoral care. My…
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What Bridges Are Made Of

A Friend wonders if it's time to accept our differences. Sarah Katreen Hoggatt

Experiments in Faithfulness

In August, I traveled to Rhode Island to join Friends from New England Yearly Meeting at their annual sessions. New…

Business Meeting and Worship

Two recent Forum letters have expressed the view that Friends ought not to use the word "worship" to describe what…

The Herstory of “Oak Womyn Drumming”

"Oak Womyn Drumming" came into existence after a sequence of events with profound feminist implications. First, there was a minute…
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