Do Quaker meetings have ministers or music?
Conservative Friends generally have no paid staff at their meetings. All are ministers, and all seek the Holy Spirit together. Music can appear at meetings, but only spontaneously. No one will say, “Turn to page ___ in your hymnals”. A Friends’ meeting is based on anticipation and waiting, and therefore it is also spontaneous. Conservative Friends like music just as anyone else would, they just don’t use music at the time of worship the way most other churches do.
