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2019/02/23

Friends World Committee for Consultation - Wikipedia



Friends World Committee for Consultation - Wikipedia




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The Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) is a Quaker organisation that works to communicate between all parts of Quakerism. FWCC's world headquarters is in London.[1] It has General Consultative NGO status with the Economic and Social Councilof the United Nations[2] since 2002.[3] FWCC shares responsibility for the Quaker UN Office in Geneva and New York City[4] with the American Friends Service Committee[5]and Britain Yearly Meeting.[6]

FWCC was set up at the 1937 Second World Conference of Friends in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, US,


"to act in a consultative capacity to promote better understanding among Friends the world over, particularly by the encouragement of joint conferences and intervisitation, the collection and circulation of information about Quaker literature and other activities directed towards that end."[7]


Contents
1Structure
1.1Africa Section
1.2Asia West Pacific Section
1.3Europe and Middle East Section
1.4Section of the Americas
2FWCC triennials, conferences and international representatives meetings
3References
4External links


Structure[edit]

FWCC has four sections in addition to the world office in London:[8]
Africa Section, based in Nairobi, Kenya
Asia and West Pacific Section, based in Australia
Europe and Middle East Section, based in Histon, Cambridge, England
Section of the Americas, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

In addition every three years FWCC organizes an international Triennial. The triennials are attended by about 175 representatives, appointed by the almost 70 affiliated yearly meetings and groups aiming to provide links among Friends.[7] The 22nd Triennial was held in August 2007 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, with the theme "Finding the Prophetic Voice for our Time".

Africa Section[edit]

Africa Section represents Friends throughout the continent of Africa. Most African Friends are from the evangelical and programmed traditions. However, a significant minority are from the unprogrammed tradition. South Africa Yearly Meeting is principally an unprogrammed Yearly Meeting and there are unprogrammed Meetings elsewhere in Africa, notably in Kenya. Africa Section is numerically the most numerous of the Sections and the administrative headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya. The 2012 Friends World Conference was held in Kenya.

Asia West Pacific Section[edit]

Asia West Pacific Section (AWPS) is geographically the largest FWCC Section stretching from Japan in the north to New Zealand and Australia in the south and from the Philippines in the east to India in the west. Asia West Pacific Section is growing significantly and recently welcomed into Membership the Philippine Evangelical Friends Church, a Filipino programmed and evangelical Friends Meeting; Marble Rock Friends and Mahoba Yearly Meeting in India. Some AWPS Friends Meetings are numerically small, e.g. those in Korea and Hong Kong but nonetheless give generously to Friends work internationally and contribute a lot to the life of Friends. Other Friends Meetings in the Section are relatively large with several thousand Friends. The geographical area of the AWPS region includes numerically large Friends Meetings of the evangelical programmed tradition which have not as yet affiliated with FWCC, although friendly relations are maintained locally.

Europe and Middle East Section[edit]

Europe and Middle East Section (EMES) is numerically the smallest of the Quaker Sections but historically the oldest and is growing in former Eastern Bloc countries, though declining in so-called Western Europe countries. EMES includes Britain Yearly Meeting, the mother Meeting of Friends, being the heir to the former London Yearly Meeting. Britain Yearly Meeting's "Faith and Practice" or book of discipline is used by many Friends around the world as a guide to Friends' practices and procedures. Britain Yearly Meeting is the largest Meeting in the Section with approximately 16,000 Members, followed by Ireland Yearly Meeting with around 1,000 Members. Other Yearly Meetings in Europe are small, in some cases smaller than Monthly Meetings in Asia but retain the name and form of Yearly Meetings for historical reasons.

Friends have a long-standing presence in the Middle East and the Palestine, dating back to Ottoman times. For example, Friends School, Ramallah, is a noted educational centre and Friends are active in attempts to build peace at the grass roots in this troubled area. Britain Yearly Meeting's Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) is one of the significant international Friends agencies. The FWCC Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva is partly supported by Britain Yearly Meeting. Friends presence at the United Nations has engaged and continues to engage in much quiet diplomacy to reduce violence and build peace around the world. Friends House in Geneva is a quiet haven in a busy international city and hosts Geneva Meeting.

Section of the Americas[edit]

Section of the Americas is numerically the second largest section and includes Friends from all Friends traditions in both North and South America as well as in the Caribbean and Central America. Section of the Americas is officially bi-lingual in Spanish and English, though Canada Yearly Meeting also operates in both English and French. FWCC's other QUNO branch is located adjacent to the New York UN Building and is closely connected with the quasi-Quaker organisation American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). 

AFSC was founded by Friends and still has a substantially Friends Board of Trustees, however, only the Director of AFSC is required to be a Friend and the vast majority of AFSC staff, including senior staff, are not Friends and are not familiar with Friends worship or testimonies leading to some Friends' Meetings distancing themselves from AFSC and its activities. In 1947 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Friends for 300 years of work for peace and received on behalf of Friends by AFSC and its London counterpart, the Friends Service Committee, now known as Quaker Peace and Social Witness. 

Approximately 160,000 Friends live in the USA and some 300,000 live in Latin America. US Friends are often relatively affluent whereas many Latin American Friends come from relatively impoverished and oppressed indigenous communities. As in Asia and Africa, in Latin America, Friends are a growing church. Section of the Americas Friends have a long history dating back to the mid-17th Century. Friends founded or helped found a number of the US States, notably Pennsylvania, named after distinguished 17th Century English Friend, William Penn; Rhode Island; New Jersey and Delaware all had substantial Friends' contributions in their founding. William Penn's constitutional documents for Pennsylvania formed an important and influential source for the later United States Constitution.[9] 

In the early colonial period Friends were persecuted in Massachusetts and New York. Friends also had a substantial impact in the early days of colonisation of the Caribbean, for example in the 17th century and early 18th century 25% of the population of Barbados was Friends. The history of suffering is a uniting factor with Latin American Friends, many of whom live in difficult circumstances and find living the transformative Peace Testimony a daily commitment.

It is difficult to speak about American Friends as a whole because they represent such a broad and diverse range of Friends traditions, however, it is a tribute to their commitment to Friends beliefs that they respect each other and work together.

FWCC triennials, conferences and international representatives meetings[edit]
LocationDateTheme

Mexico 1985 Profundizar Más = Digging deeper.[10]
New Mexico, USA August 1994 On being publishers of truth [11]
Birmingham, England July 1997 Answering the love of God : living our testimonies.[12]
New Hampshire, USA July 2000 “Friends: A People Called to Listen, Gathered to Seek, Sent Forth to Serve”
Aotearoa/New Zealand January 2004 “Being Faithful Witnesses: Serving God in a Changing World”.
Dublin, Ireland 11–19 August 2007 “Finding the Prophetic Voice for our Time”.[13]
Nakuru, Kenya 17–25 April 2012 “Being salt and Light: Friends living the Kingdom of God in a broken world”.[14]
Pisac, Peru 19–27 January 2016 “Living the Transformation: Creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the Children of God”.[15]

South Africa 2023 TBC


In 1991, the Fifth World Conference of Friends held on three sites—The Netherlands, Honduras and Kenya—replaced the usual Triennial meeting.

As noted above, the second World Conference took place in Pennsylvania in 1937. The first had been held in the U.K. in 1920. The third was held in Oxford, U.K. in 1952 and the fourth in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A. in 1967. A World Conference was held near Nakuru in Kenya in 2012 in lieu of triennial gathering in 2010.[16] In future Plenary Meetings will be held every six to eight years and called International Representatives Meetings.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "FWCC World office homepage". Fwccworld.org. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  2. ^ "ECOSOC database of NGOs". Un.org. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  3. ^ "United Nations Civil Society Participation (iCSO) – Friends World Committee for Consultation". esango.un.org. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  4. ^ "QUNO website". Quno.org. 14 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-27.
  5. ^ QUNO Governance in New York Archived 16 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "QUNO Governance in Geneva". Quno.org. Archived from the original on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  7. ^ Jump up to:a b "WIDER QUAKER WORLD | Ottawa Monthly Meeting". ottawa.quaker.ca. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  8. ^ "Contact | Friends World Committee for Consultation". www.fwccafrica.org. Retrieved 2016-07-17.
  9. ^ "Frame Of Government Of Pennsylvania". Avalon Project.org. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
  10. ^ Profundizar Más : ensayos para ayudar a los Amigos, y a las Juntas de los Amigos, a prepararse para la 16a asamblea Trienal del Comité Consultivo Mundial de los Amigos = Digging deeper : papers to assist Friends and Meetings prepare for the 16th Triennial Meeting of the FWCC]]. – Mexico : Friends World Committee for Consultation, 1985.
  11. ^ On being publishers of truth : a discussion guide in preparation for the 18th Triennial Meeting of FWCC ... 1994 / prepared by Gordon M. Browne Jr. and Heather Moir. – London : Friends World Committee for Consultation, 1994
  12. ^ Answering the love of God : living our testimonies : [documents, etc. from the] 19th Triennial Meeting, Friends World Committee for Consultation, Westhill College, Birmingham, England, 23–31 July 1997
  13. ^ Website for Triennial 2007 Archived 4 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine and official Blog.
  14. ^ "Welcome to the World Conference website | World Conference of Friends 2012". Saltandlight2012.org. 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  15. ^ "Website for World Plenary Meeting 2016". Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  16. ^ Minutes of the 2007 Triennial, website cited above.


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Quakers in Seoul, from my archives | Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition

Quakers in Seoul, from my archives | Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition



Quakers in Seoul, from my archives

Posted on October 10, 2011
Today I finally went to my first Quaker meeting. I’ve been curious about them since my cousin Rick told me about their lobbying work and website, both of which I feel are terrific tools for social justice.
Since my friend Bill left Seoul, I don’t want to bother going all the way up to Songbuk-dong to the English mass that’s rather old fashioned. After mass there’s this awkward social time when people gather outside and mingle. The men flock together, the white “soccer moms” flock together and the women of other races flock together. It’s this weird grouping after church that bugs me. Also, the soccer mom group feels so uninviting since I’m not married, even though with a degree and interest in children’s education I can contribute to their conversation. When Bill lived here I could join the men’s group, where there was more interesting talk without being perceived as a hussy. (It’s all so ridiculous.)
We have mass at Sogang in Korean every Sunday, but that’s hard to follow. (Impossible.) Twice a month there’s English mass, a new event, and I’ve been going there and am satisfied. Yet I thought I’d see what the Quakers were like to fill out the other 2 Sundays a month.
I went with Linda, who’d been before. When we arrived there were a few people (say 5) quietly sitting and we joined their circle. Then more people came in quietly. At 11 we started to meditate without any direction or discussion. That continued for 50 minutes. Evidently in the U.S. latecomers aren’t permitted, but here stragglers, noisy ones, kept coming even at 11:40.
At 11:50 one man started reading something in Korean. Fine. That wasn’t translated so I have no idea what it was about. Then an American man started speaking. He said, “You know it’s really hard to talk to you people.” The tone was tense and full of simmering frustration, perhaps even hostility. He sort of rambled. Perhaps he didn’t want to upset anyone. Yet he was clearly upset. He talked about the concept of covenent. That it’s like a promise, but stronger. He wanted to convey that if you join a religious group you enter into a convenent agreeing to be willing to let that religion or faith or group change you rather than you changing it. I can see his point, though I don’t agree completely. I think sometimes you might have a responsibility to change it. All this would depend on how long you’ve been in the group and what you tried to change. Dealing in such generalities is meaningless anyway.
Someone proceeded to translate.
Then a Korean man commented that this was his second time there and he thought the service would benefit from changing the format so that they read more scripture. Aha! I see what the first guy was talking about. The main thrust (for a few centuries) of Quakers is the silent, communal worship. Here some new guy who doesn’t know much about the tradition saying, “Change your ways ‘cuz that’s how my church does it.”
There wasn’t any discussion, just more silence. Linda asked if they had a query for the month. Evidently, the tradition is to offer a query at the start of every month as something for individuals to meditate on.
In 1682, London Yearly Meeting started asking representatives from quarterly and monthly meetings a number of factual questions on Friends and their activities. In the 1700s, these questions were revised to allow them to be used to ensure consistency of conduct among Friends as well as the reporting on the state of the Society. In 1833, they were rewritten and expanded to emphasize evangelical principles and to encourage Friends to consider whether they should not adopt them personally.
Further revisions and extensions took place every 20 – 40 years. The present text was approved by London (now Britain) Yearly Meeting in 1994 (English Quakers)
Here’s a few examples:1 “If pressure is brought upon you to lower your standard of integrity, are you prepared to resist it? Our responsibilities to God and our neighbour may involve us in taking unpopular stands. Do not let the desire to be sociable, or the fear of seeming peculiar, determine your decisions.”
Advices and Queries, 1994, No.38
2 We are subject to all the persuasive powers of commerce and are influenced by family, friends and neighbours. Take time to understand yourself, your real needs and your true potential. Try to bring all your actions in line with this understanding and your knowledge of the world around you.
3 “Try to live simply. A simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength. Do not be persuaded into buying what you do not need or cannot afford. Do you keep yourself informed about the effects your style of living is having on the global economy and environment?” (ibid)
Interesting points to ponder.
One guy perked up at Linda’s question and said that would be nice if they went back to that tradition. No one commented further. My guess is the current group consists of some anti-query types.
The service was sort of falling apart. Lots of tense, disappointed quiet, so Linda and I left and went out to lunch.
From October, 2006
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2019/02/13

North Korea Working Group | Australia Yearly Meeting

North Korea Working Group | Australia Yearly Meeting
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2019/01/25

1804 美퀘이커교단 15일 맨해튼서 ‘한반도평화행진’



美퀘이커교단 15일 맨해튼서 ‘한반도평화행진’




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美퀘이커교단 15일 맨해튼서 ‘한반도평화행진’
12일엔 한반도 평화정착 기원집회도 가져

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미국의 퀘이커 교단이 한반도 전쟁반대와 평화정착을 염원하는 행진을 맨해튼 한복판에서 갖는다.

퀘이커 교단은 오는 15일 34가에서 트럼프 타워가 있는 57가까지 한반도평화와 반전을 주제로 여러 미국단체들과 행진을 벌일 예정이다.

이에 앞서 퀘이커 교단은 12일엔 맨해튼 3애버뉴와 15가 코너에 위치한 퀘이커미팅하우스에서 한반도 평화 정착을 기원하는 집회를 개최했다. 한인들은 물론, 타인종이 30여 명이나 참석한 집회에서 린다 루이스 미국프렌즈서비스센터 북경사무소장이 강연을 했다.




AFSC delegation visit to North Korea May 2016

퀘이커교단은 숫적으로는 작지만 평화 문제에 대해서는 가장 큰 교단으로 통한다. 1943년 일본이 진주만을 공격했을 때에 미국이 대일본 전쟁선포를 할 때 퀘이커교도들은 “전쟁으로 가기 전에 밉지만 일본과 외교 담판을 먼저 해보자”고 요구했다. 북한에도 30년전부터 인도적 지원 사업을 해왔지만 지난해 트럼프 정권하에서 북한 여행금지를 하는 바람에 현재는 중단된 상태이다.

12일 행사에선 워싱턴 DC에서 사업 담당자 대니얼 재스퍼(Daniel Jasper)와 북경에서 북한 사업을 진행하던 린다 루이스(Linda Lewis) 미국프렌즈서비스센터 북경사무소장이 북과 평화를 이룩할 수 있는 방안과 경험에 대한 강연으로 큰 호응을 얻었다.

행사에 참석한 김수복 6.15공동선언실천뉴욕위원회 위원장은 “우리에게 절박한 현실 문제에 이처럼 퀘이커 교단이 의미있는 행사를 계획한 것에 큰 용기와 감사함을 갖게 됐다. 한반도에 진정한 평화가 정착(定着)되도록 미국정부와 의회에 강한 메시지를 보내는 계기가 되었으면 한다”고 말했다.

지난해 북미간 험한 입싸움과 핵무기가 언제 날아들지 모르던 시절보다는 한결 좋아졌지만 언제 또 다시 아찔한 상황으로 돌아갈지 불안한게 사실이다. 그는 “4월 27일 남북 정상회담이 예정됐고 5월엔 역사적인 북미 정상회담이 열리는만큼 이런 분위기를 성공적으로 살려 남과 북에 평화가 깃들기를 간절히 바란다”고 소망했다.

김수복 위원장은 “한 맺힌 이산가족들 모두가 상봉할 수 있고 남북이 서로 손잡고 부족한 것을 서로 보충해서 유무상통 정신으로 살아가면 단군이래 한 나라였던 우리나라는 경제적으로도 부족한 것이 없는 금수강산(錦繡江山)이 되어 강대국들을 조화기키는 평화의 중재자로 우뚝 설 것”이라고 강조했다.

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War or Peace on the Korean Peninsula?

A presentation by Linda Lewis and Dan Jasper
of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 7:00 PM
at the 15th Street meetinghouse - 15 Rutherford Place
All are welcome (call 646 489-4175 for more info)
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Sponsored by peace committees of NYC Quaker meetings

and the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)

NYC Advocacy team whose focus this year is on legislation to prevent the U.S. president from starting a war with North Korea .

The AFSC has been working in North Korea for over three decades. By 1998, AFSC had established an on-going agricultural development project with cooperative farms, and today is one of only a handful of American NGOs actively engaged in the DPRK. Linda Lewis, and Daniel Jasper will discuss AFSC’s program in North Korea, the challenges of working in this isolated nation and the impact of sanctions, and opportunities for peace on the Korean peninsula.

Daniel Jasper is AFSC’s Public Education and Advocacy Coordinator for Asia. His role is to bring lessons learned from AFSC’s programs throughout Asia back to policymakers in Washington. His current work focuses heavily on the humanitarian, peacebuilding, and people-to-people aspects of U.S.-North Korea relations.

Linda Lewis, the American Friends Service Committee Country Representative for China/DPRK, is responsible for AFSC’s North Korea program, including its long-standing agricultural development project. Dr. Lewis is a regular visitor to North Korea and has organized numerous study tours and exchanges outside Korea for DPRK partners.------------------

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2018/12/19

Quaker Peace & Creativity Summer School 2019 incl. film evenings Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite

Quaker Peace & Creativity Summer School 2019 incl. film evenings Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite





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A fun, friendly, informal gathering… an enriching time to learn and be creative together
We hope you can join Western Australia's first ever
Quaker Peace & Creativity Summer School
held over two consecutive Friday evenings and Saturdays in early January.
Speakers include 

Jo Vallentine (peace activist), 

Ann Zubrick (educator on spirituality and aging), 

Jane Hammond (independent film maker), 

Dr Nigel Pegram (exegesis academic), 

Dr Elizabeth Cheong (housing cooperatives), 

Elizabeth PO' (Mayors for Peace & nuclear weapons), 

Samya Jabbour (Palestinian Christian issues), 

Sara Martins (African cultural policies in Portugal), 

Lillian Robb (refugee law), 

Malcolm Robb (landmark land agreement with the Noongar), 

Mark Newhouse (Alternatives to Violence), 

Quaker Earthcare Committee, and 

Adrian Glamorgan (peace witness just back from North Korea).
There are four creativity workshops being run by Rosemary Longhurst, Adrian Glamorgan, Brenda Roy and Beth Harcourt


A FULL PROGRAM FOR THE FIVE SESSION WORKSHOPS IS FOUND HERE:

Please register for each and every "Select A Date" Session you wish to attend.
Select A Date from five sessions over two Fridays & Saturdays in January:
  • Friday evening 4th January (6pm-8:15pm) "A Crude Injustice" with director Jane Hammond WA and West Timor
  • Saturday morning 5th January (9:30am*-1pm) Peace Sampler Nonviolence | North Korea | Nuclear Weapons | Still, Small Voice | Native Title in SW WA | Refugees
  • Saturday afternoon 5th January (2pm-4:30pm) Creativity Hearing the Call Jump In & Haiku| Air Clay | Indigo Dyeing | Walking with Strangers (living with memory changes) | What does love require of us
  • Friday evening 11th January (6pm-8:15pm) "The Stones Cry Out" with Samya Jabbour Palestinian Christians
  • Saturday morning 12th January (9:30am*-1pm) "Here I Am" Orienting the Self (Your directions for 2019) | Self-activating and the Street | Am I, Are You, Are We...Australian? | Another Look at the Uluru Statement | Travelling our River & Reflecting on our Journey
*Each Saturday morning 8:50am-9:10am the organisers will host a short Quaker meeting for worship (ie before the Summer School starts). You are welcome to join us. We will mainly be in silent worship. At the end, there'll be a chance for a short sharing and Q&A.
Please bring a plate to share (but come in any case!). Meal and break times are a great occasion to share conversation. We look forward to your company!
Venue: Friends’ Meeting House, 35 Clifton Crescent, Mt Lawley. All welcome!
Inclusivity: Kindly contact Elizabeth at yarnwaves@gmail.com about any particular needs.
Questions about the program: ring Adrian at 045 0732 100.
Parking/Transport: Parking is limited. There are spaces at the Day Care Centre at 30 Clifton Crescent. Try Buses 60, 67 and 950 from Wellington Street: it’s a 20 minute ride, and about 6 minute walk. It’s a (hot) 20 minute walk from Mt Lawley Railway Station.
What are Quakers? Try this: https://www.quakersaustralia.org.au/ . This event is organised by WA Quakers Outreach Committee. We seek ways to connect with the wider community as we grow in spirit together, particularly focusing on ways we can develop Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Earthcare.
A fun, friendly, informal gathering… an enriching time to learn and be creative together
BTW, If you want to know more about future Alternatives to Violence Project workshops, like the one coming up on 16, 23 February, please register http://avpwa.org/workshops/workshop-registration .
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2016/12/11

The Religious Society of Friends

The Religious Society of Friends



The Religious Society of Friends

Navigating this web site: Entries are not in alphabetical order but instead age order. New entries are added to the bottom of each section. Use the search function of your browser to locate entries.
Quaker blogs may be found at Planet Quaker.

Index

Introductory Items

Quaker Organizations

Friends and Nature

  • Friends Energy Project

  • Quaker Earthcare Witness



  • PYM Committee in Unity with Nature

      Quaker Meetings

      A more or less comprehensive listing of Yearly, Monthly and Quarterly Meetings organized by location of meetinghouse.

      Quaker Nursing/Retirement Homes

      Note that Friends Services for the Aging has their own list.

      Historical Quaker Meetinghouses

      Some of these are still active meetinghouses; some not. All are much, much older than the Internet.

      Writings of Historical Friends

      Free books by Elton Trueblood available

      "We have been blessed with a number of his books that are out of print - they are free for the asking - but donations for shipping would be greatly appreciated." Contact Sue Kern - Center for Quaker Thought and Practice, Earlham Drawer 104 Richmond, IN 47374 or quakercenter@earlham.edu
      • The Essence of Spiritual Religion
      • The Encourager
      • A Place to Stand
      • Basic Christianity
      • The Future of the Christian
      • Your Other Vocation
      • A Philosopher's Way

      Writings of (or about) Contemporaneous Friends

      Peacemaker sites

      Quaker History

      Quaker Genealogy

      Links to other sites

      Young Friends

      Miscellaneous

      Quakers from A to Z (but not X)

      [mailto:] Ask for a listing here.
      The listing is only available for non-bulk email use. If you agree not to use it to send mail to everyone on the list, you can see the list.

      Quaker-run businesses

      Computer Businesses
      Communications
      Health Practitioners
      Consultants
      Performing and Visual Artists and Musicians
      Publishers & Bookstores
      QUIP is a consortium of Quaker Publishers. Bookstores have their own page.
      Summer Camps
      Other Businesses

      Quaker links totally (but totally) unrelated to the RSOF

      Quaker Oats Gets Its Own Section

      Quaker-named sites without a clue

      I've moved these off into a separate file. There's just too many non-Religious-Society-of-Friends groups which use the "Quaker" name.

      Newsgroups

      Mailing lists

      • Mailing lists on quakerlists.org
      • Quaker-L-moderated.
      • Quaker-Canadian.
      • Quaker-P-peace-n-justice concerns.
      • FCNL-News-FCNL Alerts. Send a message saying "subscribe FCNL-News".
      • Friends-Church-evangelical.
      • [mailto:] Quaker-Spectrum-unmoderated. Send a message saying "subscribe quaker-spectrum".
      • Quaker-B Mailing list.(Britain Yearly Meeting) This serves (but is not exclusive to) British Friends. Subscribe to the Quaker-B mailing list go to
      • Q-Light A list for queer (lesbian, gay male, bisexual, transgendered or questioning) Quakers and interested guests to discuss issues relating to being queer, being a Friend, and the intersection thereof. Discussion will be respectful and non homo-/bi-/transphobic.
      • Quaker-Roots, a list for Quaker genealogists. Send a message with "subscribe" in the body of the message (not the subject line).
      • Quaker Family History Society (mail mode) (digest mode). Send a message with "subscribe" in the body of the message (not the subject line).
      • Friends-Theology This conference was designed for evangelical, Christ centered Friends to discuss theology and biblical interpretation with each other. Those interested in a discussion focusing more on the practical side of ministry as well as current topics in the Friends church might wish to subscribe to Friends-Church@XC.org For further questions, please contact [mailto:] Joe Ginder.
      • [mailto:] BYM-News-news for and about members of Baltimore Yearly Meeting (BYM). Send a message to subscribe.
      • "EFM-MEN is the email conference for EFM MEN. EFM MEN was created to encourage men to become involved in the world ministries of the Evangelical Friends International. Men are motivated to seek practical and direct involvement, using their skills and abilities to assist and support missions. The principal work will be to raise mission awareness through existing yearly meeting structures for men, bringing national recognition to mission efforts arising from those yearly meetings. This will be done through work crusades, prayer journeys and innovative stateside projects." The list also welcomes interested men who are not members of EFI meetings.
        To subscribe, send the message
        SUBSCRIBE EFM-MEN
        to: hub@xc.org
      • FCUN
        FCUN was created "for Friends (and friends of Friends) of the environmental persuasion." It discusses the Friends Committee in Unity with Nature (FCUN) and other environmentally-related topics. Begun July 31, 1997. Visit the FCUN list's web page for more information.
      • QVSTC
        This is a list to facilitate communication among those interested in Quaker volunteer service, training and witness.
        To subscribe, send the message
        subscribe qvstc Yourfirstname Yourlastname
        To: listproc@list.serve.com
      • Friends Council on Education
        The Friends Council on Education Technology Committee has established this list of educators in Friends schools and Friends in non-Friends schools.
        To subscribe, send an e-mail message with your name and relation to Quaker education
        to: fce-web@forum.swarthmore.edu
      • Michigan Quaker Teens
        We're a small group largely based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with members from all around lower michigan (namely Troy, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and the Traverse city area). We hold quarterly retreats and we run a mailing list. To subscribe to the list send an empty message.
      • Quaker Books For Friends
        Quaker Books for Friends is distributed free of charge as an independent monthly newsletter featuring eclectic reviews of books of interest to Christian Friends. Each issue features two or more contemplative reviews of books for enlightened Christian readers. The newsletter has no commercial connection with any bookstore or publisher, and the mailing list is unpublished and carefully-supervised.
      • Young Adult Quakers.
      • [mailto:] ERAF -- Ending Racism Among Friends
        The ERAF list provides on-line networking for Friends with a concern for issues of race, diversity, inclusiveness and privilege, especially as they play out in the Society of Friends. It is one of several activities to follow up on the April 1999 Friends Gathering with a Concern for Issues of Racism, Diversity and Inclusiveness.
        To subscribe, send a blank email to ending-racism-subscribe@quaker.org.
      • Canadian Young Friends -- This list is focused on Canadian young and young adult Friends. We hope to use it to help (A)YFs keep in touch and to provide a way of letting (A)YFs know about service opportunities, retreats etc. To subscribe, go to http://quakerlists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/quaker-cyf. Please introduce yourself upon subscribing.
      • Yahoo Groups for Friends
      • Q-trans -- Quaker TransPeople - a discussion group to support transsexual and transgender people in the Society of Friends.
      • Quaker-MM, for discussion of Monthly Meeting Clerking Issues.
      • Google Group for San Francisco Bay Area Quakers

      Contributors

      • Ken Sutton, of Friends Journal, Friends Journal pages
      • Randy Oftedahl, FCADP pages
      • Dick Bellin, FCRP pages
      • Simon Grant, FWCC pages
      • Chuck Fager, various writings including the Pendle Hill pages
      • Chris Faatz, QUF and Lucretia Mott pages
      • Reuben Snipper, William Penn House page
      • the late David Washburn, Pirates of Penn's-ance page
      • Alice Drewery, YFGM pages
      • Jennifer Snow Wolff, Quaker-run business reorganization
      • Paul Sladen, for many URL updates.
      • ...and anyone else I may have missed [mailto:]
      Please email suggestions and contributions. Quakerism is a multifarious religion. Everything on these pages should be considered representative of some but not all Quaker thought. Free web space is available on this server for any meeting-sponsored Quaker activity.
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      Russell Nelson

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