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Resources and Materials

Compiled by Jan Greene and Marty Walton

This rather large pdf is part two of the publication Fostering Vital Friends Meetings. It includes many individual articles grouped into sections by subject that can be used as wonderful, indepth resources for meetings. 

Meeting Resource
I like to joke that I attended my first Quaker meeting because the Belief-O-Matic told me to; but now, ten years later, I am certain that that silly internet quiz was really just the first of many divine nudges guiding me on my spiritual journey...
Quaker Quest Blog
I think I came to Quakerism for all the wrong reasons; I hope I’ve stayed for the right ones.
Quaker Quest Blog
My Quaker story begins a few years before I was born....
Quaker Quest Blog
I know now that Quakers refer to people who walk in the door as “Seekers.” I’m not sure that always fits. I stumbled into my first Meeting almost by accident.
Quaker Quest Blog
When I first came to Quakerism about 25 years ago, I was looking for a spiritual community that would accept, if not welcome, the theology I had grown into and the glimpses I had experienced of the Beyond.
Quaker Quest Blog

What can a Quaker meeting do to become stronger, more visible and more welcoming? This question has as much to do with inreach—deepening the spiritual life of the meeting community—as it does with outreach—our message and witness to the world.

Outreach
By Gail Thomas

"In the beginning was darkness—and it wasn't good enough." This heart wrenching comment on Genesis 1 burst forth from a middle aged African American man in a class on Racism and the Bible. Instinctively I knew this wasn't true, and as a white person I had never t

Challenging Racism
Michael Gibson, Woodbury Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Story is how we share who we are with those we love the most. We tell and listen to stories of the ordinary and the extraordinary. We delight in stories of cherished moments. We record and catalog them in words and photographs. People of all ages hunger for stories.

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This resource suggests reading materials to advise and support Friends in ministry and eldership.
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