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essay: Friends and Community (PDF)

Every member of a Quaker community brings different gifts, insights, and contributions, which collectively help achieve and maintain balance and wholeness in the life of the meeting. Simultaneously, individual Friends gain balance and wholeness from the collective wisdom of their meetings. In Quakerism, the individual needs the community as much as the community needs the individual.

Pages 29-31 of Exploring Quakerism: A Study Guide, Participant’s Edition by Marsha D. Holliday, copyright 2006. Used by permission of Quaker Press of FGC

video: Faithfulness Groups (7 minutes)

The faithfulness group gives me an opportunity to talk about these spiritual matters. There aren’t that many settings in which you can just speak from your heart about how the Spirit is at work in you and with you. So it gives me the opening to do that.

Original video from QuakerSpeak.com.  A project of Friends Journal.  Filmed and edited by Rebecca Hamilton-Levi.  Transcript here.

Learn more about Faithfulness Groups on Marcelle Martin’s website, A Whole Heart and in her book, A Guide to Faithfulness Groups.

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