Category Archives: Hard-Core Quaker

Carolina Quaker Divorce Update: Part 2

Yadkin Valley Quarterly Meeting Ministry and Counsel approved the following minute:
“We expect that Meetings come to unity with Jesus Christ of the Scriptures and the Faith statements in Faith and Practice. If not we recommend that those Meetings be sanctioned and or disciplined, with possible disownment, by the November 2016 Representative Body session. Meetings of concern include: New Garden, Spring, First Friends of Greensboro, and Winston-Salem Friends.”

Rally ‘Round The Flag: Carolina Quaker Divorce, Part 1

After hearing many questions, the group authorized the Executive Committee to study ways of further discussing how the division might proceed, and to bring a plan for those discussions to the NCYM annual sessions, in August.

Let me repeat this, for clarity: NCYM yesterday approved development of a plan for discussing how to divide the YM. It did not agree to a plan to divide.

UPDATE: NCYM Divorce Proposal – More Documents, More Questions

UPDATE: NCYM Divorce Proposal – More Documents, More Questions Members of the “Gang of 9” pastors who drafted a “divorce” proposal for North Carolina YM have made available more documents from their sessions. These are below, along with some initial questions that remain unanswered. Some members of the group assert that they attempted to be … Continue reading UPDATE: NCYM Divorce Proposal – More Documents, More Questions →

Breaking: Split Plan for NC Quakers Drawn Up By “Gang of 9” Pastors

Meeting secretly since early April, a self-appointed group of nine pastors in North Carolina Yearly Meeting (FUM) has been negotiating a proposal to break up the YM, and sent an approved draft to the NCYM Executive Committee early last month.
The group reportedly regarded itself as representative of three “wings” of NCYM, the liberal meetings, “centrists,” and evangelical. Yearly Meeting officials and staff were also present at the meetings.
The full text of the proposal is below. Note that it was signed only by seven of the group; two participants strongly objected to the plan and “stood aside” from its approval.
A participant in the sessions stated that for the most part they proceeded amicably, but with differences clearly drawn. It was also said that letters were sent to pastors in other meetings about the sessions; but how widely these notices actually circulated is in question. . . .

Agony For Carolina Quakers: More On Its Sad Saturday

Agony For Carolina Quakers: More On Its Sad Saturday When it comes to guessing what will happen at Saturday’s Session of North Carolina Yearly Meeting’s Representative body, pick your rumor — there are plenty of them. But let’s not call them rumors; “scenarios” is more elegant: — First, it could yield the long-sought (by some) … Continue reading Agony For Carolina Quakers: More On Its Sad Saturday →