How to Start a Quaker Meeting

About this episode

The episode explores the experiences of two emerging Quaker communities in starting a meeting, emphasizing the importance of collective discernment and openness to the Spirit's work.

We follow two emerging Quaker communities from different traditions to witness the messy, faithful reality of starting a Quaker meeting. There are no formulas here, only the collective wisdom of people who are discerning a call together. It’s an invitation to explore what happens when we stop trying to control the outcome and simply agree to join the work the Spirit is already doing.

People in this episode

Host: Jon Watts

Topics covered

• Quaker meeting
• community
• spirituality
• faith
• collective wisdom

Keywords

• Quaker
• meeting
• community
• spirituality
• faith
• collective wisdom
• tradition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Quaker

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