If you’re new to Quakers, some of our terminology might be unfamiliar to you. Click on any of the terms below for an explanation of what they mean. You can also ask someone at a local Quaker meeting if you’d like to know more about these terms or the ideas they describe.
- Advices & Queries
- Area Meeting
- Attender
- Britain Yearly Meeting
- Business Meeting
- BYM
- CEQ
- Clerk
- Concern
- Contribution Schedule
- Discern
- Discernment
- Ecumenical
- Elder
- Elders
- Epistle
- Ffriends
- Friend
- Friends
- Friends House
- Friends House Moscow
- FWCC
- hold in the light
- Interfaith
- laid down
- LDW
- Local Development Worker
- Local Meeting
- Meeting for Sufferings
- Meeting for Worship
- Meeting for Worship for Business
- Member
- members and attenders
- MfW
- Ministry
- Nominations
- Overseers
- Pastoral Care
- Pastoral Care Friends
- Pastoral Friends
- Peace Testimony
- QPSW
- Quaker Business
- Quaker Faith & Practice
- Quaker Life
- Quaker Peace & Social Witness
- Recording Clerk
- Testimonies
- The Society
- Yearly Meeting Gathering
- Yearly Meeting in session