The dead weight

6 Oct 2016 | by A Friend

A Friend voices concern over the ordering of Meeting business

‘If only we could become independent and concentrate on the spiritual lives of our Meeting and our community, without this dead weight of bureaucracy...' | Photo: Arjan Einbu / flickr CC.

It would be difficult to better Craig Barnett’s succinct analysis of membership (9 September). Craig quotes the three fundamental elements of being a Quaker from Quaker faith & practice 11.01, the third of which is the ‘ordering of the Meeting’s business’.

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