Applying For Membership
Suggested Readings and Other Membership ResourcesTo learn more about applying for membership in Boulder Meeting or other Friends meetings, you can consult the following videos and readings.
Videos by Friends in other meetings
[5 min Video]: How to Become a Member of a Quaker Meeting. https://quakerspeak.com/video/how-to-become-a-member-of-a-quaker-meeting/
[19 minute Video] What do Quakers Believe? https://quakerspeak.com/video/what-do-quakers-believe/[
[6 min Video]: Arthur Larabee, 9 Core Quaker Beliefs, https://quakerspeak.com/video/9-core-quaker-beliefs/
Articles about Membership
From members of other Friends’ meetings:
“On Membership in the Religious Society of Friends”, by Lloyd B. Swift (PDF)
“Belonging: Quakers, Membership, and the Need to be Known”, by Emily Higgs (PDF)
From one who remains unsure about membership:
“With Just the Door Ajar”, by Caroline Morris (PDF)
Further resources on Quaker history and Quaker Faith & Practice
Friends Journal on Quaker Membership, June/July 2020, also available online at friendsjournal.org
Members one of Another: The Dynamics of Membership in Quaker Meeting, by Thomas Gates, Pendle Hill Pamphlet, #371, 2004
Spiritual Hospitality: A Quaker’s Understanding of Outreach, by Harvey Gilman, Pendle Hill Pamphlet # 314, 1994
Abbot, Margery Post and Carl Abbot, Quakerism: The Basics, 2021
Ambler, Rex, The Quaker Way: A Rediscovery, 2013
Brinton, Howard, Friends for 350 Years,
Dandelion, Pink, The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, 2008
Durham, Geoffrey, Being a Quaker: A Guide for Newcomers, 2011
Durham, Geoffrey, What Do Quakers Believe? 2019
Chase, Steve, Letters to a Fellow Seeker: A Short Introduction to the Quaker Way, 2012
Gorman, George H. The Amazing Fact of Quaker Worship, 1973, 2008.
Intermountain Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice, The Religious Society of Friends, 2009
Jones, Rufus, Faith and Practice of the Quakers, 2007 (original, 1927)
Kelly, Thomas, A Testament of Devotion, 1996 (original, 1941)
Martin, Marcelle, Our Life is Love, 2016
