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Beyond Consensus : Salvaging Sense of theMeeting #307


Barry Morley


"In seeking the sense of the meeting we open ourselves to being guided to perfect resolution in the Light, to a place where we sit in unity in the collective inward Presence. Through consensus we decide it; through sense of the meeting we turn it over, allowing it to be decided. `Reaching consensus is a secular process,' says a Friend. `In sense of the meeting God gets a voice.'" (the Author) Morley describes three essential components in discovering sense of the meeting: release, long focus, and transition to Light, all of which are nurtured by worship. About the Author Barry Morley (1932‐2000) taught at Quaker schools and worked with Quaker camps for much of his life. Born in New York City in 1932, he attended Harvard University, where he founded a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta company. Using the same operettas, he started a youth festival in Greenwich, singing tenor in several performances. He served in the army after graduation and directed a classical music choral group in Munich, which incorporated citizens of that town in addition to soldiers. Back in the States, he spent many years teaching at Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Westtown School in Pennsylvania. His most noteworthy work occurred at Sandy Spring Friends School and Catoctin Quaker camp. Working with youth in Baltimore Yearly Meeting, he developed a sense of how to function as a camp director while allowing counselors the space to run the camp through Quaker process. This sense that Friends need to understand Quaker process as a spiritual practice that fits into everyday life is a main theme of Salvaging the Sense of the Meeting. Barry Morley also worked with adults in Baltimore Yearly Meeting, offering them spiritual retreats with the Inward Bound program. These weekends of spiritual healing and contemplation served, and continue to serve, individuals in their spiritual growth and


The Burning One-ness Binding Everything: a


Spiritual Journey Bruce Birchard Recounting experiences of the Spirit through beauty, love, and worship, the author explores the transcendent and immanent qualities of the Spirit, the relation of the Spirit to suffering and evil, and the significance of the creation as the incarnation of About the Author Bruce Birchard joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1967 while attending Wesleyan College in Middletown, Connecticut. He went from Wesleyan to work on the National Study of American Indian Education during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He took a Masters Degree in Anthropology in 1974 from the University of Chicago, and moved to Philadelphia, where he worked with the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Peace Committee on disarmament and peacetime conversion issues. He continued this work between 1984 and 1992 with the American Friends Service Committee, where he was the national coordinator for the disarmament program. In 1992, he became General Secretary of Friends General Conference retiring 2011.


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