Members One of Another: The Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting

Pendle Hill Pamphlets, Book 371

By: Thomas Gates

Narrated by: Lucas Meyer-Lee

What interests the author is not so much the formal process of clearness for membership (important as that is), but rather the underlying spiritual movement by which individuals come to find their identity in the meeting community, how they come to a full sense of belonging; in short, how we come to be “members one of another.” It is clear that this is almost always a gradual process and not a single event, As Patricia Loring has written, we need a vision of membership as “a life-long process . . . of spiritual maturing or transformation.” Thanks to the generous support of the Friends Foundation for the Aging, we’re able to make this resource and other programs accessible to f/Friends of all ages.

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