poliphilo

This is how it works,

You decide you want to be a full member of the Society of Friends.

So you write a letter to the Clerk of your Meeting.

And the Clerk forwards it to the local Area Meeting.

And the Area appoints two people to come and pay you a "Visit".

I know, I know, it sounds scary. Shades of the Spanish Inquisition or the Men in Black. My Visitation was yesterday.

One of my visitors was someone I know quite well- and like, the other was lovely too (Quakers are lovely- most of them) but still it was intense. I'm a secretive sort of a person, not comfortable blowing my own trumpet- but that's what I had to do. I suppose it was very like a job interview- only I haven't done of those for decades....

Next thing is the visitors write a report, I get to see it and make additions and alterations if I feel the need, and then it goes to Area. And they either nod the application through, or....

Actually I think you'd have to be a Nazi or an Incel or something along those lines not to get approved.....