Friendly Leadership (review)
Friendly Leadership
by Donn Weinholtz
reviewed by Stanford Searl
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Friendly Leadership
by Donn Weinholtz
reviewed by Stanford Searl
The test for membership should not be doctrinal agreement, nor adherence to certain testimonies, but evidence of sincere seeking and striving for Truth, together with an understanding of the lines along which Friends are seeking that Truth.
– Friends World Conference (1952)
Many of the words I have said, I wish I could unsay. Many of the actions I have taken, I wish I could undo. If wishes were horses, then I would ride into the past to fix the many blunders and cruelties that lie on my conscience. Instead, I walk forward and try to do better.
We counsel less mystery and more openness towards those who are worthy of confidence. If men conceal from their nearest connections in life a knowledge of the actual state of their affairs, they may deprive themselves of helpful advice, and kind participation in trouble; expenses may be incurred, and subsequent distress may ensue, which might have been avoided.
Dearly beloved Friends, these things we do not lay upon you as a rule or form to walk by; but that all, with a measure of the Light, which is pure and holy, may be guided: and so in the Light walking and abiding, these things may be fulfilled in the Spirit, not in the letter, for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
Two examinations of ways that Friends' "State of the Meeting" reports might be written to improve their usefulness.
Reflections by Jim Anderson on efforts to conduct regional gatherings within College Park Quarterly Meeting of PYM over the past two decades.
