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Faith & Practice


Faith & Practice includes advice on procedures within the faith, membership, current practice for conducting meeting business and numerous quotations from Friends on belief, worship, concerns, leadings, and testimonies. Quakerbooks.org is currently selling copies of Faith & Practice.

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Table of Contents

  • Faith & 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

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Editions
First adopted in 1955, Faith & Practice was revised in 1972. After 25 years and numerous reprintings, it was revised in 1997, 2002 and again in 2017, with updates in the section on Yearly Meeting structures and a new section of biographical notes.

Ongoing Discernment
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting appoints a Faith and Practice Revision Group to periodically review and revise Faith and Practice.  We revise Faith and Practice from time to time in order to reflect continuing spiritual discernment, incorporate new governance structure and practices and generally bring the book “up to date.”

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