Other documents related to the spiritual life of New York Yearly Meeting.

• Faith and Practice
• Meetings for Discernment Reports

What are Epistles?

In a tradition dating back to the first days of the Christian church, New York Yearly Meeting composes an epistle each year during its annual Summer Sessions describing how we perceive the movement of the Spirit among us as a meeting, how we are faring, what our concerns are at that time, and what our hopes are for the future. Typically, these epistles are addressed "to Friends Everywhere" and are distributed to the wider Quaker community, but they are also intended for the wider world beyond Quaker circles.

New York Yearly Meeting Epistles

What is a State of Society Report?

Definition

Each year, New York Yearly Meeting writes a State of Society Report that seeks to express the spiritual condition of the yearly meeting over the past year. The Report is written by the State of Society Report Committee under the care of Ministry Coordinating Committee (MCC).