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...]s maintain a set of basic queries in their books of [[Book of Discipline (Quaker) | Faith and Practice]] to provide guidance on certain issues over time. In [[Category:Quaker practices]] ...

Like [[Quakers#Organisational_government_and_polity|Quaker business meetings]], meetings of clearness committees are considered a form ...pointed by most meetings when a person applies for membership and when a [[Quaker wedding|couple seeks marriage]] under the care of the meeting. In these ca ...

...e web|title=Yearly Meeting|url=http://quaker.org.nz/yearly-meeting|website=quaker.org.nz|accessdate=April 7, 2016}}</ref> The Quaker Yearly Meeting of New Zealand underwent significant transformations between ...

'''A Quaker Action Group''' (AQAG) was founded in [[Philadelphia]] during the summer of ...commitment to its historic peace testimony.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quaker.org/renewal.html|title=THE RENEWAL MOVEMENT: THE PEACE TESTIMONY AND MODERN ...

In some Quaker groups, there may be more than one person performing clerking roles, for ex In Quaker meetings, there are often committees and temporary working groups that perf ...

...pendent tradition of [[Religious Society of Friends|Quakerism]] started by Quaker ministers [[Joel Bean|Joel]] and Hannah Bean in the [[western United States ...d to Iowa Quakers, who by degrees abandoned traditional Quaker beliefs and practices in favor of more [[Charismatic Christianity|charismatic]] ones. The Beans e ...

{{Short description|17th century Quaker group}} ...Fox and the Friends movement. She opened her home, [[Swarthmoor Hall]], to Quaker meetings. She later married Fox. ...

[[File:Painting of a Quaker Meeting.jpg|thumb|top|Painting of a meeting for worship, {{Circa|1790}}]] ...nd an hour. These meetings most often occur within [[Friends meeting house|Quaker meeting houses]]. ...

{{short description|Quaker confession of faith}} ...|first1=David E. W. |title=The Genesis of Central Yearly Meeting |journal=Quaker History |date=1988 |volume=77 |issue=1 |page=49-50}}</ref> ...

...uk/resources/cadbury0503.htm|title=Beliefs and Business: The experience of Quaker Companies|last=Cadbury|first= Sir Adrian|date=May 2003|publisher=The Founda ...aking oaths implies a double standard of truth".<ref>{{cite book | title = Quaker Faith & Practice | publisher = Britain Yearly Meeting | year = 1999 | pages ...

[[Image:AssemblyOfQuakers.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A female Quaker preaches at a meeting in London in the 18th century.]] ...d in the late 19th century this tendency bore fruit in the prominence of [[Quaker]] women in the American [[women's rights movement]]. ...

...and against participation in war. Like other [[Quakers#Practical theology|Quaker testimonies]], it is not a "belief", but a description of committed actions ...y Meeting's Friends Service Committee, now called Britain Yearly Meeting [[Quaker Peace and Social Witness|Peace & Social Witness]] on behalf of all Friends. ...

...''' (TMS) was a [[co-ed]] [[boarding school]] for grades 9-12 based on the practices and principles of the [[Religious Society of Friends]] (Quakers). It was lo ...ts lived together with faculty on a farm. It emphasized the principles and practices of the Religious Society of Friends. ...

...e general practice of marriage without an officiant, sometimes known as a "Quaker marriage"|self-uniting marriage}} ...fore differ greatly from traditional Western weddings. In some respects a Quaker marriage resembles a [[common-law marriage]]. ...

{{Short description|Organizing body for Quaker meetings in Pennsylvania}} ...'PYM''', is the central organizing body for [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] meetings in the [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], United States area, inclu ...

[[File:AssemblyOfQuakers.jpg|thumb|right|A female Quaker preaches at a meeting in London in the 18th century.]] ...georgefox.edu/qrt/vol31/iss1/2/ "The Quaker Testimony of Simplicity"] in ''Quaker Religious Thought'', Vol. 14, #1. Summer, 1972, p. 14, accessed 26 Septembe ...

{{Short description|Private, Quaker school in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States}} | type = Private, Quaker ...

...setts Bay Colony]] in 1656 via [[Barbados]], and were soon joined by other Quaker preachers who converted many colonists to Quakerism. Many Quakers settled i ...681, King [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] allowed [[William Penn]], a Quaker, a charter for the area that was to become Pennsylvania. Penn guaranteed th ...

'''Edward Backhouse''' (1808–1879) was a [[Quaker]] philanthropist and writer on [[church history]]. He was also one of the ...ine )<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Religious Society of Friends: Doctrines and Practices in which They Agree with Their Fellow ... : Edward Backhouse : Free Downloa ...

{{Short description|Group of Evangelical Quaker meetings}} | theology = Evangelical [[Quaker]] ([[Gurneyite]]) ...