Most people know several different ways for drawing a large group of people to a decision. I’ve experienced many: Robert’s Rules, the Lakota talking circle, the old-fashioned town-hall meeting, the top-down company-wide memo, a method I’ll call “spokes and wheels,” as well as Quaker meeting for business. These give us “outward forms” for grappling with messy social processes.
Reflections by Jim Anderson on efforts to conduct regional gatherings within College Park Quarterly Meeting of PYM over the past two decades.
Light-hearted response to a weighty meeting for business.
A series of short presentations at the annual gathering of Pacific Yearly Meeting 2017
The Dazzle of Day – Review
Book by Molly Gloss
Reviewed by Carl Abbott
Here’s a challenge: Write a novel in which a Quaker business meeting is the dramatic pivot point . . . and make it a compelling read.
A collection of quotations describing Quaker Meeting for Business and offering advice for its satisfactory conduct.
Advice and activities to strengthen Quaker meetings. Including:
Quaker Statement on Climate Change
Joint statement to the U.N. Climate Summit in September 2014 by Quaker Earthcare Witness, the Quaker United Nations Office, and Friends Committee on National Legislation. See: westernfriend.org/media/quaker-statement-climate-change
Friend Bob Morse of South Mountain Friends Meeting in Ashland, OR, has developed a helpful checklist to improve the flow of information from meeting committees into Meeting for Business.
Dear Western Friend: Thank you for publishing Rob Pierson’s article in the last issue of your magazine.
