Meeting for Sufferings: Book of Discipline

Meeting for Sufferings considered whether it is time to revise Quaker faith & practice

by Ian Kirk-Smith 19th April 2013

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?