August 2005
Monthly Archive
Membership: APPROVED
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Aug 26 2005 | Tagged as: Faith and Practice, Membership
MEMBERSHIP
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)
NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING
When we consider the criteria for membership, the two greatest factors are community and commitment. Not just a practical commitment, but a spiritual willingness to grow and learn, out of which practical commitment will evolve. (A group of Young English Friends, 1986 (BYM F&P 10.25))
DEFINITION OF MEMBERSHIP
A member is [...]
Education: APPROVED
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Aug 26 2005 | Tagged as: Faith and Practice
EDUCATION
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)
NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING
“It is not too much to say that the two most important duties of our Society are to publish truth as we understand it and to educate our children in our faith and life.” London Yearly Meeting, Friends Education Council, 1949
The belief that there is “that of God in [...]
Preparing For Death: APPROVED
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Aug 26 2005 | Tagged as: Faith and Practice
PREPARING FOR DEATH
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS)
NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING
“Death, then, being the Way and Condition of life, we cannot love to live, if we cannot bear to die…Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still….” William Penn,1693
“God calls our loved ones, but we lose not wholly [...]