About

Cloud Quakers is a regular Quaker Worship group. We could perhaps be a Meeting, and might be someday, but for now we are a group of regularly attending Quakers who meet online on Zoom, on Sunday evenings at 7 pm Mountain Time. 7 pm US Mountain Time is 8 in Chicago, 9 in New York, and 6 in California; we apologize for the inconvenience to those in Europe, Africa or the Far East. To join us, download Zoom (it takes ~ 5 minutes), dial 373 452 424, and you're in.

You'll find five or six regulars, and regular visitors. It's remarkably popular, and there are lots of people out there who seek a Quaker community. We intend to provide one for a wide range of people, including those who simply can't attend their local one, or don't really have a local one (mine is 70-80 miles across the White Sands and an incredibly harsh desert), or don't really fit in with their local one. My view is that we can be a community on Zoom; we can minister to each other; we can provide connection to the Quaker community.

There are at least five major kinds of Quakers nationwide, and they are very different from each other. It's a sensitive issue, that we don't pretend that we represent all Quakers when in fact we are just five; that we don't speak for all Quakers when we give our view about such things as gay marriage or the use of the Bible as absolute word. Different Quakers have gone different directions. My view is that we should try to recognize the global picture as well as possible, and at the same time forge our own path as we wish as a meeting. I think there's enough interest out there to eventually come up with and stock at least another meeting. It could be that the times are more important to waltz around, than the issues; at least we haven't run up against many theological differences. We've had conflict, but that's different. All communities have conflict.

Join us if you dare. A little Quarterly statement appears below, but I call it that just because we seem to have made it to our first quarter mark. We are not a Quarterly yet, but maybe someday we will be.