Meeting for Sufferings: Book of Discipline
Meeting for Sufferings considered whether it is time to revise Quaker faith & practice
Every generation there is a revision of the Book of Discipline, Quaker faith & practice. The subject, when raised at Meeting for Sufferings, prompted a lot of questions. Was it time, Friends were asked, for a new revision? It was explained that the purpose of the Book of Discipline was ‘to reflect our “orthopraxy” – the things we do together so we have a shared understanding of our church government’. Is our current Book of Discipline doing this?
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