Robin M on What Are Queries For Anyway?

Robin M: What Are Queries For Anyway? The Advices and Queries in PYM F&P are the closest we come to a statement of our faith and practice, and they always go together in the book. The A&Q were written by a committee that labored for a long time to come to unity on the right language and the right topics and the right number of sets of A&Q. That committee is called the Discipline Committee, and they wrote the whole F&P, the last version took 10 years or so from the time they started until they finished in 2001.

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Comment by Christine Manville Greenland on 7th mo. 13, 2010 at 7:54am
Most Yearly Meetings have advices and queries.

In Conservative Friends' tradition, it is the practice for each member of each monthly meeting to address them in writing, with a summary written by each monthly meeting.

Here in Philadelphia, we consider the queries at a monthly meeting, but do not prepare ourselves as well, except perhaps by reading them.

My favorite set of advices and queries is that of Britain Yearly Meeting.

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