Speak­ing of FAQs that I hope will attract search engine queries for quite some time, Emi­ly Provance has been on fire with a series she calls “answers for a small‑f friend,” in which she — well, answers a lot of ques­tions peo­ple might have. Many of these are just as use­ful for us large‑F Friends and they’re all worth check­ing out.

This week’s is “Is there any­thing all Quak­ers have in com­mon?” She gets around the sometimes-confoundingly diverse set of opin­ions among Friends by find­ing com­mon­al­i­ties that “near­ly all Friends” would agree with. It’s a good way to proceed.