Wilmington Yearly Meeting - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:46:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Wilmington Yearly Meeting - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 Wilmington Yearly Meeting splinters https://www.quakerranter.org/wilmington-yearly-meeting-splinters/ https://www.quakerranter.org/wilmington-yearly-meeting-splinters/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:44:21 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=61152 Not a surprise: Wilmington Yearly Meeting (western Ohio and Tennessee) is splintering along familiar lines:

The separations stem from a disagreement over whether same-sex weddings are to be permitted in member churches, or as they are often called in the Quaker tradition, meetings. The churches leaving WYM regard same-sex marriage as against the will of God.

It looks like many of the more Evangelical churches are the ones pulling out of the yearly meeting. The lines of controversy are similar to recent separations in Indiana and North Carolina Yearly Meetings. The big-tent center of Midwestern FUM Friends seems to be pretty permanently fractured.

https://www.wnewsj.com/news/78939/several-churches-leave-wilmington-yearly-meeting-over-same-sex-marriage

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