Meeting for Sufferings: What it means to be a Quaker today - membership

Paul Parker spoke to his paper ‘What it means to be a Quaker today’

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) recording clerk Paul Parker spoke to his paper ‘What it means to be a Quaker today’, presented at Yearly Meeting 2014. He focused on Minute 40, which asked for two things.

The first of these was ‘further exploration by Area Meetings of the flexibility already allowed around membership processes’.

The second called for ‘a yet more flexible approach to membership for some people, including, particularly, young adult Friends, whose journeys may preclude them committing to a Local or Area Meeting’.

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