140:. Forty-five congregations and two Latino church plants remained in IYM, affirming the traditional doctrinal statements of the yearly meeting and its statements on social issues, which tend to be biblically conservative and reach to the earliest days of Friends (Quakers). IYM has also accepted congregations that formerly belonged to Western Yearly Meeting. The congregations left Western Yearly Meeting over that body's growing liberalism.
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While many Quaker yearly meetings have suffered serious divisions in their history, Indiana Yearly
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