Quaker faith & practice

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You can read and search the newly updated Quaker faith & practice (new window). The web text is based on the third edition and includes all the changes approved by Yearly Meetings to date.

Quaker faith & practice is the core publication of Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. It is an attempt to express truth through the vital personal and corporate experience of Friends. It is largely composed of extracts from Friends' writings: a fitting way of expressing the breadth of Quaker theology. It also describes the current structures (church government) of Britain Yearly Meeting.

Copies of Quaker faith & practice can be purchased from The Quaker Bookshop. BYM is currently working on the new fourth edition which will incorporate the current changes.

Resources

The forms and other documents referred to in Quaker faith & practice can all be downloaded from this page.

• 4.02 - Model documents for Charitable Registration
• 4.14 - Area and local meetings - current guidance on good practice by Quaker Life - Meeting Safety 2008 [PDF 4kb - new window]
  
• 4.39 - Guidance for clerks and custodians on the creation, care and custody of records
• 4.45 - Data protection and confidentiality
• 6.25 - Trustees annual report & accounts 
• 12.06 - Guidance on pastoral care
• 13.44, 14.21, 15.05, 15.16 - Treasurers' Handbook
• 15.14 - Care of Meeting Houses Handbook produced by the Advisory Committee on Property
• 16.45, 16.50 - Link to the General Register Office website - England and Wales, Scotland 

Downloadable printable chapters of Quaker faith & practice in PDF format - Chapter downloads