Spirit-led Structures for Quaker Meetings

by Steven Davison
Central Philadelphia Meeting

A Quaker meeting’s structure has the same purpose as the meeting for worship—to channel the movement of the Holy Spirit: to nurture its experience by individuals and the gathered community, and to facilitate its expression in individual and corporate action.

Does Structure Equal Hierarchy?

by Lori Heninger
Shrewsbury Meeting

“God So Loved the World that He Didn’t Send a Committee”

by Herb Lape
Westbury Meeting

Recovering a Spirit-Led structure in NYYM has been a New York Yearly Meeting concern for many years now. In 2001, I served on an ad hoc “Committee on Committees”—you have to love the ironic wisdom of naming it this. It was “charged with bringing forward recommendations on ways to simplify and strengthen the yearly meeting’s committee structure.”