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)
Quaker membership is important. Mutual commitment matters. Membership is a relationship, not an achievement.
On December 14, 2018, I walked into the Multnomah Friends Meetinghouse for the first time. I felt enveloped in a circle of Light, at one with it and with everyone in the room. I had been searching, longing for this my entire life. I was Home.
Dear Editor: I was notified that one of our members, Sam Hays, sent you information about Alice Herz, in response to the poem that Carlos Valentin III wrote about her (“Ten Days,” Jan/Feb 2019) and regarding information I recently discovered in Detroit Friends Meeting’s old files.
A collection of Quotations about the meaning of "membership" among Friends.
A couple of years ago, I traveled to York, England, for a conference. I realized that the Quaker heritage sites that I had always wanted to see were not too far from there.
Unabridged, lightly edited transcript of an interview that Western Friend conducted on February 12,2015, with Bill Brent, Coordinator of the New Meetings Project for Friends General Conference.
