Quak­er mem­ber­ship has long been a con­tentious issue for thr past few decades (Why should some­one join? What does it mean? What lin­its should there be?) but it’s becom­ing more com­pli­cat­ed with the rise of hybrid wor­ship. Emi­ly Provance looks at thr state of mem­ber­ship and how it’s evolving.

A lot of the work done about mem­ber­ship late­ly, espe­cial­ly by young adults, has been about help­ing Friends in gen­er­al under­stand that the insti­tu­tion­al prac­tices need to change to reflect what God is doing in our communities.

Belong­ing: The Com­mu­ni­ty or the Insti­tu­tion (12/37)

Some­thing real­ly inter­est­ing has been hap­pen­ing with mem­ber­ship.  In the past ten years, a num­ber of Quak­er groups…

Turn­ing, Turning