Faith and Practice is a book issued by a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, setting out what it means to be a Quaker in that Yearly Meeting. Faith and Practice include advice on procedures within the faith, membership, current practice for conducting business meetings, and Friends' quotations on belief, worship, concerns, leadings, and testimonies.
Copies of Faith and Practice of Baltimore Yearly Meeting with changes through 2025 are available below. PDF and E-Pub files are available to download free of charge. Paper copies of the currently approved Faith & Practice can be purchased through Amazon.com or through the BYM Office.
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In 2013 a proposed revision of Faith and Practice came to Annual Session for approval. It was not accepted. However, as noted in minute Y2013-53:
…we want to acknowledge that the 2013 draft Faith and Practice has been a gift to us, and many Friends have found it both useful and inspiring. The process of reading and discussing it has been a source of spiritual renewal among us. We do not want to discard the 2013 draft. We would like to make it available to Friends as a resource, as long as it is clear to all that it has not been adopted as our Faith and Practice.
Since 2019, it has been published as the 2013 Resource for Faith & Practice. It is out of print and available digitally as a PDF, as linked above.
If you have questions, concerns, or suggestions, please contact our Faith and Practice Committee at fandp@bym-rsf.org.
