Resources for Young Adult Friends (YAFs)

Deepening Meeting Life

Deepening Meeting Life

This curriculum enables Friends to explore central tenets in the shared life of a Friends Meeting. Topics include: Quakerism as an adventure in direct, unmediated, ongoing guidance by Spirit. Exploring our faith with each other. Deepening worship — how we can...

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Spirit Rising — Young Quaker Voices

Spirit Rising — Young Quaker Voices

Spirit Rising celebrates, critiques, questions, and reflects on the Quaker faith experience. Writing and visual art by teenage and young adult Quakers from around the world and across the theological and cultural spectrum of the Religious Society of Friends give...

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New Children of the Light

New Children of the Light

Read interviews with sixteen millennial Quakers describing who they are and who they want to become.  New Children of the Light can serve as a window into the lives and minds of young people coming of age in the twenty first century. It is common to hear about the...

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Crossing the Threshold: Preparing to Welcome Families

Crossing the Threshold: Preparing to Welcome Families

"How do meeting communities prepare and engage in active invitation to families and children? When a family walks through the door of a meeting, there are three sets of needs we should be prepared to support: the spiritual formation of their children, the spiritual...

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Discovering Our Faith Through Worship Sharing

Discovering Our Faith Through Worship Sharing

This booklet offers opportunities for individual, family and all-meeting study of the foundations of the Quaker faith.  It offers a way to welcome new attenders by drawing out the faith that is already within them while respecting where each is on their spiritual...

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The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction

The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction

This is an excellent introduction to Quakerism written in non-adademic language with practical applications to modern times. Written by Ben Pink Dandelion, a tutor at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Center in England, the book places Quakerism in the wider religious...

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QuakerSpeak Video Project

QuakerSpeak Video Project

QuakerSpeak is a Quaker YouTube channel offering interviews with Friends of all different backgrounds, responding to the core questions of our faith. QuakerSpeak interviews are brief, personal and intimate, seeking to give viewers an experience that is entertaining,...

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A Friendly Reading List

A Friendly Reading List

A weighted compilation of 929 current Quaker titles surveyed and ranked by Friendly Librarians through publication year 2007.  The list is arranged according to the reader's experience with Quaker Meetings. Goals are to help Friends meetings without a Friendly...

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Listening in Tongues: QuakerSpeak video

Listening in Tongues: QuakerSpeak video

Not everyone in Quaker Meeting speaks the same theological language, but Friends have a way to listen for the Spirit behind the words. This brief video explores the discipline of listening beyond the words, of interpretation, of discernment and appreciation for people...

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#QuakerProblems: QuakerSpeak video

#QuakerProblems: QuakerSpeak video

When one of these Earlham College students cracked a joke about something being a "Quaker Problem," little did they know it would become an international Quaker meme within a matter of weeks. This brief video is a charming, gentle way to laugh about — and appreciate —...

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