Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestantism, Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally ...
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 meetings 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 committeean
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's ''Faith and Practice'', which contains a set of queries
Quaker practices
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