Category: Quakers
Quaker specific content, theology, worship, training, community, both relating to Britain Yearly Meeting and the wider Quaker family.
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Images for Quaker Meeting Houses
Friends House design and circulate a set of posters every year along the theme of Quaker Week – this year Quaker Week runs from Friday 27 September to Sunday 6 October. However, what if your Meeting House doesn’t have enough space to run all of the series or has difficulty relating to this year’s posters?
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Generic Email Addresses or how to prevent memory loss…
What is a generic email address and why do I think they are important? An example of a generic email address is which for a office or that office holder rather than a person. For Quaker Meetings’ Friends House offer the option to have a standard email address, yourmeeting@quaker.org.uk – which is actually a forwarding
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Affording our Meeting Houses
This could be taken two ways – how do we ensure that the Meeting House is affordable for both the local community and the worshipping community that uses it. Not only financially, but also with reference back to an earlier post: Beacon or Burden. Hopefully, all Quaker Meetings are a spirit-led, all-age faith community trying
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Marketing or Outreach?
All businesses, if they are to thrive, need some form of marketing. All Quaker meetings, if they are to thrive, need some form of Outreach. Are they the same thing? What can you do to encourage Outreach? What can you do to encourage marketing? Why might you hesitate before doing anything? The word marketing can
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Quakerly Business
Is a Meeting House… a place of worship? a business? a social enterprise? a community resource? Or some combination of the above? Historically Quakers have been very good at running businesses (including banks). In current years this has been viewed with more suspicion. Quakers In Business have a set of principles on their website which
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Meeting Houses – Beacons or Burdens?
As mentioned in my last post “Why have a Meeting House“, Quaker meetings are often supporting meeting houses with fewer members, as the number of Quakers donating money and time has reduced. Just over a year ago I helped organise an event in London called “Creating a Vision of Our Future“. During this, Alec Davison
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Why have a Meeting House?
This is a question often asked when I say “I manage a Meeting House”, or talk about making profits and covering costs. Why do we maintain places of worship? 1) Primarily a meeting house exists to enable Quaker worship to happen at a set time and place. Any premises will need some maintenance, investment and,
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On Being a Quaker Warden: Wardenship as a Spiritual Matter
I’m often asked why I chose to become a Quaker warden. As well as “what IS a Warden?”. Quaker Life have a page that gives the current understanding, plus supplies questions and answers to anyone looking at appointing or managing wardens with Britain Yearly Meeting. Wardens are mentioned several times in Quaker Faith & Practice:
