The clerk of a meeting or committee has a vital role in nurturing Quaker process and community. If you are new to clerking or interested in going deeper in your experience of Quaker clerkship, the resources below can help.
Introductory Resources Online
- Role of Quaker Clerk by Abington Monthly Meeting
- Virtual Clerking by Emily Provance of New York Yearly Meeting
- How to Clerk a Quaker Business Meeting by QuakerSpeak, featuring Arthur Larrabee
- Why Quakers Value Process Over Outcome by QuakerSpeak
- Anti-Racist Clerking Screener by Eppchez Yes of the Institutional Assessment Implementation Committee
Recommended Reading from QuakerBooks
- Quaker Process for Friends on the Benches by Mathilda Navias
- Handbook for the Presiding Clerk by David O. Stanfield
- Where Should I Stand (ebook) by Elizabeth Boardman
- Fostering Vital Friends Meetings: A Handbook for Working with Quaker Meetings by Jan Greene and Marty Walton
- A Practical Mysticism: How Quaker Process Opens Us to the Promptings of the Divine (Pendle Hill Pamphlet #453) by Elizabeth Meyer
- Grounded in God: Listening Hearts Discernment for Group Deliberations (Revised Edition) by R.Taylor McLean, Suzanne G. Farnham, Stephanie A Hull
- For children: Approved! A Story about Quaker Meeting for Business by Nancy Haines