The following items are not yet presented within the agenda but shared here for advanced review and for informational purposes.
From the DISCIPLINE REVISION COMMITTEE:
The Discipline Revision Committee has two separate but related items of business for this year's sessions. The first item is the presentation of an introductory page about the Queries (2024 Report - Section 08A). This introduction was first presented to the yearly meeting in 2019, and has since been posted on the yearly meeting web page. The only change to this introduction is that the committee has strengthened wording related to the option of not answering every question in a query every time the query is addressed. We ask that the yearly meeting approve the addition of this introduction to the Interim Discipline.
As the second item of business, the Discipline Revision Committee recommends the inclusion of the current set of provisional monthly meeting Queries in the Interim Discipline (2024 Report - Section 08B). The primary feedback the committee has received this year has concerned the number of separate questions in each query, which the committee addressed in the Introduction, above. There are no changes in the wording in this recommendation from the most recent set of queries being used by monthly meetings.
We remind Friends that the entire Interim Discipline must be considered and approved one more time before it becomes the Discipline or Faith and Practice of our yearly meeting. Also, the yearly meeting has already approved allowing individual sections of the Discipline to be revised as needed in the future, so that in the future we can respond quickly and with focus on any section that is not serving the yearly meeting well.
We have not requested an interest group this year, but individual committee members plan to make themselves available at announced places and times to speak with interested Friends.