Talk:Monthly meeting

POV Question

I'm not sure the right way to address this (or I would have already tried to fix it), but it seems to me that we need a better way of handling the discussion of Monthly Meeting vs. Friends Church. To me currently this article feels like we're biasing it toward the unprogrammed tradition unintentionally. I wonder if it might make sense to just state clearly that MM's are generally only refered to within that tradition, and have other space devoted to handling FC's? --Ahc 23:54, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

• I think your point is valid, although not a major issue in my mind. Perhaps a cross-link to the Evangelical Friends article would provide the counter-balance. It's a historical fact that Monthly Meeting is the traditional term. Logophile 08:29, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

You're probably right that I'm making a bigger deal out of this than is warrented. --Ahc 15:11, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Am I right in my understanding that a Friends Church is likely to be a self-governing entity, whereas a Preparative/Local Meeting is not "Congregationalist", but must bow to the decisions of the Monthly/Area Meeting and its financial and pastoral oversight. Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 21:06, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Quaker decision-making/meeting practice

Dear editors, I recently started a draft on 'Quaker decision-making': User:Douginamug/Draft:Quaker_decision-making and I would like to know if it affects/is affected by this article. My motivation for the draft was the (apparent) absence of an independent article on the topic, given the great importance it has in Quaker organization, and the significant influence it has had in the development of Consensus and Sociocracy. After searching harder, I realize that this article, and Clerk (Quaker) are somewhat overlapping in content. What are your thoughts? Best, DougInAMugtalk 22:04, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

I finished the draft, and moved it to article space: Quaker decision-making DougInAMugtalk 22:17, 20 April 2022 (UTC)