State of the Meeting Limericks
Description:
Light-hearted response to a weighty meeting for business.
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.
We are the inheritors of a particular way of making group decisions. This way needs to be practiced, over and over, to be learned and understood. One can not learn it simply by reading or observation: one learns through experience, trial and error. . . The business focuses upon how we make our Light visible and creative.
Dear Editor: I'm responding Talley Kenyon’s letter in the November/December 2013 issue of Western Friend. I'm sorry that Palo Alto Meeting has had trouble filling the positions of clerk and recording clerk. Believe me, Friends, they are not alone!
