Frederick Friends Meeting follows a practice, common to many meetings, of contemplating a different set of queries each month. Queries are questions used among Quakers to uncover how our faith is being lived out, both individually and as a community.

Queries for April 2016: Peace and Social Concerns

• How does my life reflect “the virtue of that life and power which takes away the occasion of all war”?
• Where hatred, division, and strife exist, how can I be an instrument of reconciliation and love?
• As I work for peace, am I nourished by peace within myself and within the meeting?
• How have I expressed my faith in action? How are my actions grounded in my faith?

To learn more about queries and how Friends use them in the practice of their faith, please see Baltimore Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice, 1988 edition.