https://www.quakerranter.org/autopsy-for-quaker-meetings/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.quakerranter.org/autopsy-for-quaker-meetings/#comment-948077 Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:42:44 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=101015#comment-948077 I didn’t realize the decline is as steep as the numbers indicate, but I’m not surprised.
Most young Americans have nothing but contempt for religion and see no need for it.
Friends need to rebuild from the ground up, as a movement, rather than try to renew the existing structure. In many ways, we’re trapped in our committees.
Other denominations, we should add, are also in trouble.

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