BDRC 8 and 10-12 October 2025

What is this committee responsible for?

Also known as our book of discipline, Quaker Faith & Practice is used to describe our faith and our organisation. Britain Yearly Meeting decided in 2018 that it needs to be updated. In February 2019, 24 Friends were appointed to be the Book of Discipline Revision Committee (BDRC). We have a great mix of people with different lives, ages and experiences of Quakerism.

What did it do at this meeting?

The key messages from this meeting are:

Our newly appointed External Reader, Craig Barnett, has begun the task of reviewing current versions of all texts which the Committee have written.

We have agreed our sixth and final report to Meeting for Sufferings which will go to their meeting in December 2025. This will include sharing information about our working title and structure of the new book.

We remain on track to have the first complete draft of the new book ready by late 2026 for inclusion in Documents in Advance ahead of Yearly Meeting in July 2027.

Our work to create resources that will help prepare Friends to engage with our first complete draft in early 2027 is being supported by both Woodbrooke and Quakers in Britain staff.

Drafting the new version of Advices and Queries continues.

How can I find out more?

The BDRC webpage contains more details, including our annual reports. It includes information about making suggestions to the committee. Questions can also be addressed to the committee secretary, Michael Booth, at qfp@quaker.org.uk.