Quaker Theology

Issue #26 — Preview

This preview of Issue #26 reports on the escalating conflict within North Carolina Yearly Meeting–FUM that threatened to divide the body. Years of declining membership and finances intensified disputes over doctrine, mission, marriage, LGBTQ inclusion, institutional authority, and control of property and resources. Conservative evangelical meetings sought stronger doctrinal conformity and the exclusion of more liberal or universalist congregations, while targeted meetings resisted what they regarded as an attempted purge. Together, the reports document the early stages of a major North Carolina Quaker schism and the theological, organizational, and financial pressures driving it.

  • Quaker Thunder In Carolina: A Report by Chuck Fager

    Ninth Month (September) 29, 2014: Years of tensions in North Carolina Yearly Meeting-FUM (NCYM-FUM), exacerbated by a steady loss of members and funds, broke into the open in the summer of 2014, and took over the agenda at the annual sessions at the beginning of September. Calls for a purge surfaced, and have already produced…

  • Thunder In Carolina: North Carolina Yearly Meeting – FUM

    The article explores the internal conflict within North Carolina Yearly Meeting-FUM (NCYM-FUM), focusing on a potential schism driven by disputes over mission, morality, marriage, and money. It details the conservative evangelical push led by Poplar Ridge Meeting to enforce doctrinal unity and exclude liberal/quasi-universalist meetings, contrasted with the resistance from targeted meetings such as New…