Resources on Clerking

Clerking workshops

• Both Pendle Hill and Powell House feature workshops on clerking periodically. These are a great way to learn clerking first-hand.

Print Resources for Presiding and Recording Clerks

Print resources available from the FGC Quaker bookstore, quakerbooks.org, organized by topic.

Presiding clerks

• Where Should I Stand?: A Field Guide for Monthly Meeting Clerks, Elizabeth Boardman; $12.50, $9 ePub.
• Handbook for the Presiding Clerk, David Stanfield; $4.
• Before the Meeting: A Handbook for Clerks, Keith Redfern.
• Before Business Begins, Will Watson.
• Beyond Consensus: Salvaging the Sense of the Meeting, Barry Morley; Pendle Hill Pamphlet #307; $6.50.
• When Friends Attend to Business, Thomas S. Brown; PhYM.
• Servant of the Meeting: Quaker Business Meetings and their Clerks, Cecil W. Sharman; Quaker Home Service, BrYM.
• Guide to Quaker Practice, Howard H. Brinton; Pendle Hill Pamphlet #20; $6.50.
• Principles of the Quaker Business Meeting, George Selleck; Friends United Press Pamphlet Series.

Recording clerks

• Before Business Begins: Notes for Recording Clerks, Will Watson; NEYM; $5.
• Unforeseen Joy: Serving a Friends Meeting as Recording Clerk, Dajoh D. Hickey; North Carolina YM.