Dear Friends: I’m sad that so many people – including so many “recorded Friends” – misunderstand what “membership” in a meeting means.
In the modern age, when we no longer face persecution for public expression of Quaker faith and practice, meetings no longer need to document whether or not a person who self-identifies as “Quaker” may or may not speak for us publicly.
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.
Notes of a conversation among Friends in the West on March 21, 2019, about ways that they and their meetings view membership in the Religious Society of Friends.
Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West on March 21, 2019, about ways that they and their meetings view membership in the Religious Society of Friends.
