Meetinghouse BP

Meetinghouse BP An online Friends (Quaker) community and publishing imprint seeking to make space at the table for t

Meetinghouse is a gathered Friends (Quaker) community and publishing imprint. Diverse viewpoints give way to a fuller understanding of truth, and those marginalized by society are specially equipped to understand it. We are interested in issues of authenticity, community, justice, equality, simplicity, peace, and creation care.

This is only our second release ever, and we couldn't be more excited for it to be this book from Lynn Johnson!
01/17/2023

This is only our second release ever, and we couldn't be more excited for it to be this book from Lynn Johnson!

What does it really mean to be a Quaker? In this memoir, Lynn Johnson offers stories of six different spiritual encounters that illustrate the heart of Quaker identity: knowing the in-dwelling presence of God and seeing that of God everywhere.

Either we are becoming true and beautiful after the manner of Jesus, or we are not. Either we are walking in life, or we...
09/24/2021

Either we are becoming true and beautiful after the manner of Jesus, or we are not. Either we are walking in life, or we are walking in death. Either we’re able to touch the core of things, or we do not. But if we can become poems ourselves, then that future is very bright indeed - Paul Pastor

*Mary Lee Bendolph, Work-Clothes Quilt, 2002

Both the Christian way of life and the artistic discipline of writing and reading poetry rely on that attentive connecti...
09/23/2021

Both the Christian way of life and the artistic discipline of writing and reading poetry rely on that attentive connection between what is seen and what is unseen, “things” that have never forgotten what they are (such as trees, birds, children, nettles, Christ), or through saints and artists who are remembering what they truly are and teaching us pilgrims to know what it means to be ourselves - Paul Pastor

*Mary Lee Bendolph, Work-Clothes Quilt, 2002

In the mid-1960s, DuBois started leading shorter version of the Dialogues as a practice she called “worship sharing.” It...
06/19/2021

In the mid-1960s, DuBois started leading shorter version of the Dialogues as a practice she called “worship sharing.” It was especially popular with younger Friends - Martin Kelley

From the FJ archives.

Starkly different shapes and shadows will leap out at us from the biblical text depending on who and where we are
06/18/2021

Starkly different shapes and shadows will leap out at us from the biblical text depending on who and where we are

by Kenji Kuramitsu A friend posted  on Twitter the other day: “the person that relies on culture for interpretation of the Bible will never be stable.” His tweet raised for me a few larger questions that I have been thinking about recently while studying here in Barranquilla, Colombi

06/18/2021

The clearness committee is a great innovation. Decoupling it from ancient Quakerism also makes it more easily adaptable for non-Quaker contexts - Martin Kelley

I could probably start a column of Quaker pet peeve of the day. I especially get bent out of shape with misremembered history. One peeve is the myth that

Quaker governance is not the same as secular consensus, but a lot of secular consensus processes are adapted from Quaker...
06/17/2021

Quaker governance is not the same as secular consensus, but a lot of secular consensus processes are adapted from Quaker methods - Annalee

Building and maintaining healthy teams is real work that takes time and effort–especially if you’re trying to organize people to get something done. Doing that work within a flat or “leaderle…

I still live and breathe. And now I have a little more room to be me - Juniper Klatt
06/16/2021

I still live and breathe. And now I have a little more room to be me - Juniper Klatt

by Juniper Klatt I grew up in purity culture ( Here’s an article  that looks helpful after a quick look, for anyone looking for a definition/examples of this). From a very early age in Fundamental Evangelical Christianity, I learned things about my body that I’m still struggling

Quaker testimonies lose their impact once detached and disconnected from the injustices and inequities they seek to prot...
06/16/2021

Quaker testimonies lose their impact once detached and disconnected from the injustices and inequities they seek to protest and redress - Derek Brown

Thomas More and the Prophetic Purpose of Community

Jesus' solutions were impractical - Danny Coleman
06/15/2021

Jesus' solutions were impractical - Danny Coleman

by Danny Coleman One afternoon earlier this week, I was driving in the car and flipped the radio to the local AM Christian station, as I occasionally do.  Generally their programming ranges from pre-recorded sermons to shows about parenting and marriage advice to "current events&quo

It is clear that Quakers were instrumental in promoting and implementing the forced assimilation of Native children - Pa...
06/15/2021

It is clear that Quakers were instrumental in promoting and implementing the forced assimilation of Native children - Paula Palmer

Facing our history and ourselves.

I wonder what happens when someone like this walks into churches today - Peterson Toscano
06/14/2021

I wonder what happens when someone like this walks into churches today - Peterson Toscano

by Peterson Toscano I imagine you’ve heard a sermon about the Ethiopian eu**ch in Acts 8. It’s still regularly preached in Evangelical churches I attended. Still, from the dozens of Acts 8 sermons I consumed, I couldn’t tell you the first thing about this famous eu**ch. What is a eu**ch anyway...

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