Beyond Consensus: Salvaging Sense of the Meeting

by Barry Morley

Overview

Is it too late for Friends to recover a gift intended for them? That gift is a sense of meeting in a meeting for business. That gift is not consensus. Barry Morley discusses three essential components in dis- covering a sense of meeting: release, long focus, and transition to Light all of which are nuturuted by worship. Rich stories of life experience illustrate the process in a pamphlet that offers a true gift back to Friends.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151440653
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	04/27/2015
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #307
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	84 KB

About the Author

Barry Morley is a member of Sandy Spring (MD) Monthly Meeting. He taught in Quaker schools for twenty-five years and directed Catoctin Quaker Camp for twenty-three. He is presently director of Inward Bound which offers programs of spiritual growth and healing in the Baltimore Yearly Meeting. He drives a school bus, speaks upon request, leads workshops, and writes articles, opera libretti, song cycles, one act plays, and incomplete books.
He has become increasingly concerned about what he calls “doughnut Quakerism,” a process by which Quakers dedicate themselves to Quaker values and concerns but diminish the spiritual core from which the values and concerns originally emanated. He is convinced that more power flows through a Religious Society of Friends than can be generated by an Ethical Society of Friends.