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Decision Making - APPROVED June 1999
Posted by James Riemermann on Jan 11 2007 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, Faith and Practice
Friends make decisions based on the experience that the will of God can be discerned both individually and as a group. Regular worship as a faith community is an important foundation for that discernment. The Divine Spirit is active among us. Heeding the Light within can help us find unity in what we do. Thus our group decision making occurs in a meeting for worship to conduct business.
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Simplicity, approved May 2006
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Jun 24 2006 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, Faith and Practice, Testimonies
“Life is meant to be lived from a Center, a divine Center – a life of unhurried peace and power….. It is serene. It takes not time, but it occupies all our time.” (Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion, p.116, 124.)
“Simplicity does not mean drabness or narrowness but is essentially positive, being the capacity for [...]
Northern Yearly Meeting Structure and Function — APPROVED May, 2006
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Apr 21 2006 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, Faith and Practice
NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
APPROVED MAY, 2006
“Recognizing the joy and celebration experienced each time we gather together for fellowship and as a worshiping community, individual Friends and Friends within several monthly meetings in the Wisconsin-Minnesota area announce the birth of a new entity within the Religious Society of Friends: NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING.
In [...]
Membership: APPROVED
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Aug 26 2005 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, 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 [...]
Education: APPROVED
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Aug 26 2005 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, 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 [...]
Preparing For Death: APPROVED
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Aug 26 2005 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, 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 [...]
A Brief History of Quakerism: APPROVED
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Jul 04 2005 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, Faith and Practice, History
Approved at Yearly Meeting Session 5/05
A Brief History of Quakerism
The Religious Society of Friends arose in seventeenth-century England, at a time of religious and political turmoil. There was great dissatisfaction with the established Church of England, with its legal monopoly of public worship, oppressive tithes, and corruption. Dissenting groups, including Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Puritans, Ranters, [...]
Meeting for Worship: APPROVED
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Jul 03 2005 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, Faith and Practice
MEETING FOR WORSHIP
“…I found myself one of a small company of silent worshipers, who were content to sit down together without words, that each one might feel after and draw near to the divine Presence, unhindered at least, if not helped, by any human utterance. Utterance I knew was free, should the words be given; [...]
Faith of Friends of Northern Yearly Meeting: APPROVED
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Jul 03 2005 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, Faith and Practice
FAITH OF FRIENDS OF NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING
Approved at Yearly Meeting session, May 2005
“We hope we shall never finish considering our fundamental beliefs…”
–QUESTIONS & COUNSEL, Yearly Meeting of Aotearoa/New Zealand. 1991
“Friends find their essential unity in their profound and exhilarating belief
in the pervasive presence of God and in the continuing responsibility of each person and worshipping [...]
The History Of Northern Yearly Meeting
Posted by Northern Yearly Meeting on Jul 03 2005 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, Faith and Practice, History
Approved, under revision
Early Migration of Friends to the Upper Midwest:
Early movements of Friends away from the South and the Eastern Seaboard to the midwest in the mid-1800s established Quakerism in this region. Pioneer Friends moved into Illinois beginning in the 1830s, establishing rural meetings which had roots in Ohio and Indiana Yearly Meetings. Pioneer Friends [...]
Integrity: APPROVED
Posted by James Riemermann on Jul 03 2005 | Tagged as: Approved Chapters, Faith and Practice, Testimonies
INTEGRITY
“While seeking to interpret our Christian faith in the language of today, we must remember that there is one worse thing than failure to practice what we profess, and that is to water down our profession to match our practice.”
Friends World Conference, 1952
“When you live with integrity, that implies a spiritually integrated wholeness where you [...]