Ohio Yearly Meeting's Podcast

Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative)

This is a podcast of Ohio Yearly Meeting. We are a collection of Conservative Quaker Meetings based primarily in Ohio. By conservative, we do not mean politically conservative. Conservative Friends are known for their commitment to conserve the Original message of the first generation of Quakers. These Quakers, in turn, saw their movement as a revival of primitive Christianity. We hope the installments of our podcasts will present the understandings of Conservative Quakerism. So, if thee is interested in learning the differences between Conservative Quakers and other Quakers, or would like to understand differences between Quakers and other Christians, thee may well be at the right place. On the other hand, the Conservative Quaker perspective is so strikingly unique in contemporary society, that it will be a balm to many seeking spiritual fulfillment. To assist these seekers is the true intent of publishing our podcast.A good many of the podcast installments will be presented by Henry Jason. Henry is knowledgeable in the Greek of the New Testament and has a fascinating way of tying the meaning of the original words with the writings of early Friends. Listening to him provides a refreshing view of scripture and is an excellent way to learn about original Quaker theology. Henry's podcasts are usually bible classes and so they are often interspersed with discussions, questions and insightful comments by his students. The music in our podcasts is from Paulette Meier's CDs: Timeless Quaker Wisdom in Plainsong and Wellsprings of Life available at paulettemeier.com.Find out more about Ohio Yearly Meeting at ohioyearlymeeting.org.Please Contact us and let us know how we are doing.

  1. Conservative Friends Bible Study of The Gospel of John #20

    FEB 17

    Conservative Friends Bible Study of The Gospel of John #20

    John 12:1–19  We read John 12 with an eye for meaning, moving from Mary’s costly anointing to a king on a donkey and the tension between literal history and spiritual truth. We sit with hard questions about Judas, poverty, symbolism, and what counts as essential belief. • Why John’s timeline differs from the synoptics • Anointing at Bethany as humility, burial, and honor • Judas, the common purse, and ethics of the poor • Diakonos as service rather than slavery • Litra as possible burial measure and its weight • Plotting against Lazarus as reaction to living proof • Triumphal entry and Zechariah’s humble king • Early Friends, James Naylor, and costly witness • Remembering after glory as theology of insight • Discerning essentials: resurrection, birth, and belief • Physical–spiritual continuum and modern lenses A complete list of our podcasts, organized into topics, is available on our website. To learn more about Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), please visit ohioyearlymeeting.org. Those interested in exploring the distinctives of Conservative Friends waiting worship should consider checking out our many Zoom Online Worship opportunities during the week here. All are welcome! We also have several Zoom study groups. Check out the Online Study and Discussion Groups on our website. Advices read in these podcasts can be found on page 29 in our Book Of Discipline. We welcome feedback on this and any of our other podcast episodes. Contact us through our website.

    58 min
  2. EOF06C The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 6 Part C, Ministry of the Golden Age

    12/03/2025

    EOF06C The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 6 Part C, Ministry of the Golden Age

    Four vivid portraits of conservative Quaker ministry show how conviction, plainness, and silent worship shaped a people under pressure from modern life. We trace their outreach, leadership, and struggles with change as Ohio Friends carry inner continuity toward 1917. • Elwood Conrad’s solemn preaching on salvation and conscience • James Henderson’s home meetings, missions work, and presidential visits • Cyrus Cooper’s rigorous plainness, opposition, and intuitive friendships • Carl Patterson’s gentle leadership, clerking, and magnetic presence • Quietism’s strengths and limits within a changing economy • The hedge of plainness fading while inner bonds endure • Education, eldering, and the cost of fear of change • Readiness for war-time testing and reconstruction A complete list of our podcasts, organized into topics, is available on our website. To learn more about Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), please visit ohioyearlymeeting.org. Those interested in exploring the distinctives of Conservative Friends waiting worship should consider checking out our many Zoom Online Worship opportunities during the week here. All are welcome! We also have several Zoom study groups. Check out the Online Study and Discussion Groups on our website. Advices read in these podcasts can be found on page 29 in our Book Of Discipline. We welcome feedback on this and any of our other podcast episodes. Contact us through our website.

    30 min
  3. EOF06B The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 6 Part B, Ministry of the Golden Age

    11/26/2025

    EOF06B The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 6 Part B, Ministry of the Golden Age

    We trace the tension between strict preservation and bold outreach among Ohio Friends from 1874 to 1917. Asa Branson’s authority, Hannah Stratton’s journeys, and the Fowlers’ service reveal how discipline, humility, and risk shaped a quieter but wider ministry. • Asa Branson’s plainspoken authority and resistance to sociability and standard time • Deference to elders creating distance from youth and leadership roles tied to plain dress • Reports of renewed ministry and young Friends entrusted with gifts • Hannah Stratton’s humility, release to travel, and contested reception in Britain • John and Esther Fowler’s service for children in Ohio and Cairo • influence of an unprogrammed meeting in Japan on local Friends • The move from preservation toward outreach without abandoning core testimonies A complete list of our podcasts, organized into topics, is available on our website. To learn more about Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), please visit ohioyearlymeeting.org. Those interested in exploring the distinctives of Conservative Friends waiting worship should consider checking out our many Zoom Online Worship opportunities during the week here. All are welcome! We also have several Zoom study groups. Check out the Online Study and Discussion Groups on our website. Advices read in these podcasts can be found on page 29 in our Book Of Discipline. We welcome feedback on this and any of our other podcast episodes. Contact us through our website.

    22 min
  4. EOF06A The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 6 Part A, Ministry of the Golden Age

    11/15/2025

    EOF06A The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 6 Part A, Ministry of the Golden Age

    We trace the character of Ohio Yearly Meeting’s “Golden Age” ministry, where quietist discipline met public witness in prisons, schools and streets. Stories of Anne Branson, Elwood Dean and Daniel Mott reveal the cost of obedience, the power of silence and the risks of over-editing holiness. • Quietism shaping tone, restraint and obedience • Prophetic sensitivity alongside activist outreach • Anne Branson’s severe integrity and tender counsel • Elwood Dean’s musical preaching and human warmth • Daniel Mott’s prayerful gentleness and nearness of eternity • Decline of ministers after 1890 and likely causes • A call to keep speech brief, weighty and alive A complete list of our podcasts, organized into topics, is available on our website. To learn more about Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), please visit ohioyearlymeeting.org. Those interested in exploring the distinctives of Conservative Friends waiting worship should consider checking out our many Zoom Online Worship opportunities during the week here. All are welcome! We also have several Zoom study groups. Check out the Online Study and Discussion Groups on our website. Advices read in these podcasts can be found on page 29 in our Book Of Discipline. We welcome feedback on this and any of our other podcast episodes. Contact us through our website.

    29 min
  5. Conservative Friends Bible Study of The Gospel of John #19

    11/04/2025

    Conservative Friends Bible Study of The Gospel of John #19

    John 11:38–57  We study this part of John with clear attention to Greek terms that reshape belief as trust and signs as pointers beyond miracles. Lazarus’s raising, the council’s response, and the approach to Passover reveal how language, liberation, and wholehearted faith meet in practice. • Belief as trust and confidence, not mere assent • Christos as title Anointed, not a surname • Names like Yeshua, Iakobos, Ioudas shifting across testaments • Lazarus raised, unbind him as liberation motif • Jesus deeply moved, nuance of Greek verbs • signs pointing beyond miracles to God’s glory • Council fear, Caiaphas’s unintended prophecy • Children of God, adoption and unity • Passover approaching, Jesus’s withdrawal to Ephraim A complete list of our podcasts, organized into topics, is available on our website. To learn more about Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), please visit ohioyearlymeeting.org. Those interested in exploring the distinctives of Conservative Friends waiting worship should consider checking out our many Zoom Online Worship opportunities during the week here. All are welcome! We also have several Zoom study groups. Check out the Online Study and Discussion Groups on our website. Advices read in these podcasts can be found on page 29 in our Book Of Discipline. We welcome feedback on this and any of our other podcast episodes. Contact us through our website.

    45 min
  6. Conservative Friends Bible Study of The Gospel of John #18

    11/04/2025

    Conservative Friends Bible Study of The Gospel of John #18

    John 11:1-37 We read John 11 with attention to language, source questions, and the inward Light, moving from Lazarus’s death to Jesus’s tears and the claim “I am the resurrection and the life.” We contrast Martha’s presumption with Mary’s surrender, and explore how glory means God’s manifest presence, not spectacle. • ethical framing against gambling and exploitation • John 11 context, Bethany near Jerusalem • name meanings and linguistic notes in Greek and Hebrew • “glory” as manifested presence of God • light “in” a person vs external light • sleep vs death and Johannine misunderstanding motif • “I am the resurrection and the life” and zoe vs bios • Martha’s doctrine vs Mary’s inward posture • Johannine community, late dating, and source theories • Jesus’s emotions, “deeply moved,” “troubled,” and “Jesus wept” • early heresies: Docetism and the full humanity of Christ • Quaker emphasis on inward life, peace beyond understanding A complete list of our podcasts, organized into topics, is available on our website. To learn more about Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), please visit ohioyearlymeeting.org. Those interested in exploring the distinctives of Conservative Friends waiting worship should consider checking out our many Zoom Online Worship opportunities during the week here. All are welcome! We also have several Zoom study groups. Check out the Online Study and Discussion Groups on our website. Advices read in these podcasts can be found on page 29 in our Book Of Discipline. We welcome feedback on this and any of our other podcast episodes. Contact us through our website.

    44 min
  7. EOF05B The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 5 Part B, The Flowering of Wilburite Culture

    10/28/2025

    EOF05B The Eye of Faith, A History of Ohio Yearly Meeting Conservative. Chapter 5 Part B, The Flowering of Wilburite Culture

    We trace how Ohio Wilburite Friends built a “guarded education,” from printed minutes and women’s records to a brick-by-brick boarding school culture that survived fire, standardized primary schools, and balanced conviction with modernization. A story of plain speech, strict standards, aid associations, and a networked push for quality. • women’s minutes printed and epistles included alongside men’s • boarding school built at Barnesville with local bricks and pride • guarded culture of plain dress, thee and thou, strict discipline • bans on baseball and careful curation of reading material • high academics with limited salaries and leadership turnover • aid associations and alumni organizing to raise funds and standards • tuition increases and building upgrades amid cultural unease • 1910 fire, rapid rebuilding, improved safety and infrastructure • primary schools revived, subsidized, and gradually standardized • custom readers published to align texts with Quaker testimonies • education associations set courses, exams, and reporting norms • cross-yearly meeting cooperation to supervise and improve schools A complete list of our podcasts, organized into topics, is available on our website. To learn more about Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), please visit ohioyearlymeeting.org. Those interested in exploring the distinctives of Conservative Friends waiting worship should consider checking out our many Zoom Online Worship opportunities during the week here. All are welcome! We also have several Zoom study groups. Check out the Online Study and Discussion Groups on our website. Advices read in these podcasts can be found on page 29 in our Book Of Discipline. We welcome feedback on this and any of our other podcast episodes. Contact us through our website.

    29 min
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This is a podcast of Ohio Yearly Meeting. We are a collection of Conservative Quaker Meetings based primarily in Ohio. By conservative, we do not mean politically conservative. Conservative Friends are known for their commitment to conserve the Original message of the first generation of Quakers. These Quakers, in turn, saw their movement as a revival of primitive Christianity. We hope the installments of our podcasts will present the understandings of Conservative Quakerism. So, if thee is interested in learning the differences between Conservative Quakers and other Quakers, or would like to understand differences between Quakers and other Christians, thee may well be at the right place. On the other hand, the Conservative Quaker perspective is so strikingly unique in contemporary society, that it will be a balm to many seeking spiritual fulfillment. To assist these seekers is the true intent of publishing our podcast.A good many of the podcast installments will be presented by Henry Jason. Henry is knowledgeable in the Greek of the New Testament and has a fascinating way of tying the meaning of the original words with the writings of early Friends. Listening to him provides a refreshing view of scripture and is an excellent way to learn about original Quaker theology. Henry's podcasts are usually bible classes and so they are often interspersed with discussions, questions and insightful comments by his students. The music in our podcasts is from Paulette Meier's CDs: Timeless Quaker Wisdom in Plainsong and Wellsprings of Life available at paulettemeier.com.Find out more about Ohio Yearly Meeting at ohioyearlymeeting.org.Please Contact us and let us know how we are doing.