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3 unusual facts about Philadelphia Yearly Meeting


Michael J. Sheeran

During his doctoral work in the politics department at Princeton University, Sheeran spent two years conducting interviews, reading, and observing the communal discernment tradition, as exemplified in the voteless decisions of Quakers in their Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

George School and Swarthmore College were founded to provide education for Hicksite students.

Westtown School, founded before the schism, and Haverford College became the educational mainstays of the Orthodox meeting.


Race Street Friends Meetinghouse

The Meetinghouse is part of the Friends Center campus, which includes the National Office of the American Friends Service Committee, Friends World Committee for Consultation, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of the United Nations Association.


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