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Religious Society of Friends has no creed to which one must profess
belief in order to 'join' or 'belong.' Rather, Friends make use of
queries to continually probe strengths, weakenesses,
triumphs, failings in our individual and corporate lives. Regular
attention to the queries faciliates honest and humble assessment
of the extent to which we are living in accordance to
the will and intention of God/Spirit and/or the best potential within
ourselves & each other. This honest and humble assessment opens the
way toward considering how we can better align our actions in daily
life toward the best in ourselves and others. From BYM's website: The Queries are a device used within the Society of Friends for prompting both
corporate and individual self-examination. They have varied through time and
from Yearly Meeting to Yearly Meeting, reflecting current regional insights as
to the best way for Meetings and individual Friends to live their spiritual and
temporal lives. It is the practice in most Monthly Meetings to read and consider
a query at each meeting for business.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting's most recent set of queries were formalized in the 1988 version of Faith and Practice. They are currently undergoing revision, with Monthly Meetings providing input on the proposed wording of the revised queries. New and Proposed BYM Queries BYM's 1988 Faith and Practice http://www.bym-rsf.org/quakers/pubs/FaithNPractice/
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