Quakers

Religious Society of Friends

The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...

 use the term Query to refer to a question or series of questions used for reflection and in spiritual exercises.

Friends have used Queries as tools for offering spiritual challenges to the community for much of their history. Queries often take the form of a collection of themed questions that are read at the beginning of a time of worship or reflection.

Many yearly meeting

Yearly Meeting

Yearly Meeting is a term used by members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, to refer to an organization composed of a collection of smaller, more frequent constituent meetings within a geographical area. These constituent meetings go by various names such as Quarterly Meetings, which...

s maintain a set of basic queries in their books of Faith and Practice to provide guidance on certain issues over time. Individuals often offer queries from time to time to provide a spiritual challenge to their local community of Friends.

External links

Examples of Queries:

• Australia Yearly Meeting Questions for all Quakers (2008) (.pdf)
• Baltimore Yearly Meeting's queries. Also included are proposed queries from the Faith and Practice revision committee
• Britain Yearly Meeting Advices and Queries and introductory material, including 1656 statement
• Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's Faith and Practice, which contains a set of queries