Table of Contents

• Faith and Practice
• Foreword
• Preface
• Experience and Faith
  • The Light Within
  • Meeting for Worship
  • Prayer
  • Friends, Scripture and Our Living Faith
  • Discernment of the Guidance of the Spirit
• Faith Reflected in Practice and Daily Life
  • Community Life
  • Concerns, Leadings and Testimonies
  • Discernment, Clearness and Decision-making
  • Friends and Education
  • Friends Witness in the World
  • Personal Life
  • Life Passages
  • Personal Relationships
• Faith Reflected in Our Organization
  • Friends Meetings
    • The Individual and the Friends Meeting
    • Nurture of the Meeting Community
    • Guidance of Meeting Affairs—Named Roles
    • Committees of the Meeting
    • Membership
  • Quarterly Meetings
    • Functions and Organization of Quarterly Meetings
    • Guidance and Assistance
  • Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
    • Sessions of Yearly Meeting
    • Involvement in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
  • Communication, Intervisitation and Changes in Formal Relationships
    • Sharing Information with Other Meetings
    • Intervisitation
    • Growth and Changes in Meetings
  • Revising Faith and Practice
• Historical Background
  • Beginnings: Circa 1650-1690
  • Consolidation and Withdrawal: Circa 1690-1800
  • Schism and Reform: Circa 1800-1900
  • Reconciliation: Circa 1900-1955
  • Unity Amidst Diversity: 1955-2000
  • 2000–The Present
• Friends and Some of Their Organizations
  • Alphabetical Listing of a Variety of Friends Organizations
  • Friends Affinity Organizations
  • Quaker Periodicals
  • Ecumenical and Interfaith Work
• Extracts from the Writings of Friends
  • Advices
  • Extracts on Experience and Faith
  • Extracts on Faith Reflected in Practice and Daily Life
  • Extracts on Faith Reflected in Our Organization
• Guidelines and Procedures
  • General Queries
    • Deepening Our Faith: Meeting for Worship
    • Nurturing Our Community
    • Grounding for Transformed Lives
    • Witnessing in the World
  • Guidelines for a Spiritual Self-assessment of the Meeting
  • Meeting Checklist
    • State of the Meeting
    • Work of the Meeting
    • Property and Employees
    • Investments
    • Finance and Budget
    • Records
  • Queries and Checklist on End-of-Life Matters
    • Queries for the Individual
    • Queries for the Meeting
    • A Checklist for the Settlement of All Outward Affairs
  • Procedures for Membership
    • Application for Membership
    • Transfer of Membership to Another Meeting
    • Termination of Membership
  • Quaker Marriage Procedure
    • Securing Meeting Approval
    • Meeting Approval
    • Marriage Not Under the Care of the Meeting
    • Review of Responsibilities Required for the Good Order of a Quaker Wedding Ceremony
    • The Marriage Certificate
  • Guidelines for Care Committees
    • Guidelines for a Clearness Committee
    • Guidelines for a Pastoral Care Assistance Committee
    • Guidelines for a Spiritual Care Committee
  • Preparing Minutes
• Resources
• Sources of Extracts Contained in the Narrative