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#1 Why Do Quakers Sit in Silence? Instead of meetings filled with sermons, scriptures, hymns, and lessons – Quakers take a different approach to gathering the congregation. When Quakers meet in what they refer to as a Meeting House (instead of a Church), they sit in a circle to face one another and sit in …

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#1 How Do Quakers Worship? Quakers (also known as ‘Friends’ or their original name originating in the 1600s, ‘Society of Friends’) are a part of the larger Christian denomination that worships God. As the populations of liberal, fundamentalist, evangelical, theist, and atheistic Quakers continue to grow – there are currently more than 377,000 Quakers worldwide. …

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