Historically, for the first eighty-five years of Quaker history, there was no such thing as formal membership. In those days no one ever applied for membership, was accepted into membership, or resigned. George Fox, Margaret Fell, William Penn and their...
If Friends are true to their heritage and first love, we will be a radical (meaning: to get to the root of the matter) Christian body. Radical in adherence to principles of Truth. Radical in the desire to answer the...
I'd like to tell you about an experience I had in the Allen's Neck Meetingroom. The painting on the east wall shows the presence of an ethereal Christ hovering over a Friends' silent Worship. You could not paint my experience...
According to the Quaker method, decisions are reached not by voting nor gathering the majority opinion, but by gathering the"sense of the meeting." It was the experience of the early Friends that faithful following of the Light of Christ Within...
Was it 20 years of eating Quaker oatmeal? Was it the jaw-dropping assortment of pies at the clam bake? Or was it the Grace, when Peter said : "Drenched in the Spirit?" The penny dropped, and I went to the...
Love binds people together in friendship, And makes them care and do for others. Peace results because everyone feels The wants and needs of others and works together For a better world. Sharon Wypych 11/27/80...
That small picture of a Quaker Meeting in our Meetingroom, on the East wall - take a good look at it! A gathering of Quakers seeking God in the Light while in communion with one another. Men on one side...
Go to East Beach at Sunrise; Close to God Stand in a summer garden; Close to God Sit in the quiet at Meeting; Close to God Wake at night with your arm around your love; Close to God Be at...
The U.S. can and should choose a different path to human security. We in the U.S. have all the creativity, ingenuity, technology, and know-how today that are needed to end our dependence on oil and other fossl fuels. What we...