Comments on: North American Quaker statistics 1937–2017 https://www.quakerranter.org/north-american-quaker-statistics-1937-2017/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:13:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: William Robert Martin https://www.quakerranter.org/north-american-quaker-statistics-1937-2017/#comment-953462 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:13:46 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61369#comment-953462 Very concerned about the decline in membership.

]]> By: Jim Caughran https://www.quakerranter.org/north-american-quaker-statistics-1937-2017/#comment-948051 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:11:39 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61369#comment-948051 Before the revolution against the British colonisers, there were perhaps 100,000 Quakers in North America. We still have roughly that number, but the proportion is less.

We aren’t keeping up with population growth.

]]> By: Mackenzie https://www.quakerranter.org/north-american-quaker-statistics-1937-2017/#comment-947977 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:20:38 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61369#comment-947977 “Quakers’ social justice work was very visible and attracted a number of new people during the antiwar 1960s and the alternative community groundswell of the 1970s.”

…and the draft exemptions, followed by meeting attendance dropping sharply at the end of the draft…

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