Four Doors to Meeting for Worship

The concept of the Stream, not original with Bill, first appeared in his conscious mind during a Pendle Hill conference on the future of Quakerism about 1968 and has continued to have a powerful place in his consciousness ever since. This pamphlet's metaphor of the four doors grew out of his awareness of a need for a more contemporary explanation of "what happens" in a Quaker meeting.

He feels this lack of instruction in method has become an increasing problem as modern Friends move farther...