Program begins at 4pm Sunday. Program concludes at lunch time Thursday.
If you are seeking financial assistance to participate in this program, please click on the link for our Financial Assistance Application form, below.
Anti-Racism
The Sankofa Path: Healing from the Traumas of Racism
A weekend retreat with Erva Baden designed for folks who self-identify as US-Born African-American/Black Women. (Friday, 4:30pm through Sunday, 1pm.) The Sankofa Path workshop provides an opportunity to uncover what effects might be lingering in our bodies, minds, and spirits and to begin the deep healing necessary to reclaim all aspects of our radiance. Sankofa means “to retrieve” in the Twi language of Ghana; we use the image of the Sankofa bird, looking back over its shoulder to the past, because of the importance of looking back to move forward.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial aid, visit: https://pendlehill.org/events/the-sankofa-path-healing-from-the-traumas-of-racism-2/
Illuminating Our Paths to Abolition
A First Monday Lecture with Lewis Webb, Jr.
7:30pm – 9pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
Free to the public! Registration required.
Free to the public! Registration required.
The Thirteenth Amendment’s abolition of slavery included an exception for those convicted of a crime. Informed by the impacts of this exception clause, we will examine the morphing of slavery into the carceral state; identify abolition entry points along the punishment paradigm; consider abolition strategies and, as led, take our next steps towards a society that honors the light in all and is committed to true community wellbeing.
For more information and registration, visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/illuminating-our-paths-to-abolition/
Continuing Revolution 2022: Experiments in Spiritually Grounded Abolition
June 3 – 7, 2022: on-campus and online via Zoom
Young adult Friends and seekers (ages 18-35) will gather both online and at Pendle Hill to build community with others exploring abolition. Together we will experiment with seeds of alternative systems as we strive to live in integrity with our core values.
This year’s programming is guided by Mariame Kaba’s understanding of abolition as “a vision of a restructured society where we have everything that we need to live dignified lives.” Kaba notes that “abolition” is not a static or singular thing; the word is used by people of various political persuasions and imaginations, who “want to eliminate prisons, policing, and surveillance, and . . . want to create true safety, health, and well-being instead.”
For more information, to register, or apply for financial aid, visit:
Let’s Talk About Healing Justice
How do we keep our neighbors and communities safe? How does our current approach to crime, prosecution and punishment work for different Americans? Can we make it better? Lewis Webb, Jr., a graduate of Brooklyn Law School, has worked with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office and the New York City Department of Corrections. Today, he focuses on mitigating paths to incarceration, lowering barriers for people leaving the carceral system, and improving police/community relations as Healing Justice Program Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee. An engaging speaker, Lewis offers a hopeful vision of how we can create a justice system that heals communities, and protects and serves us all. Moorestown Friends Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee welcomes you to join the discussion via Zoom on Thursday 19 May at 7:30pm; click here or call 646-558-8656 and enter meeting ID 873 3565 8140 to join the conversation.
Let’s Talk About How We Share Our Witness
How do you share your witness? Braver Angels, a nationwide effort to promote civil dialogue, has some suggestions for how anti-racists can have better conversations with those who do not share their views. If you’ve ever felt frustrated by conversations on race, join Moorestown Friends Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee for a conversation about building respectful, inclusive conversations. Join us on Thursday 5 May at 7:30pm. All are welcome; please click here or call 646-558-8656 and enter meeting ID 815 8781 6369 to join the conversation.
Lenape Nation Reflections on Culture and Nature
Westtown Monthly Meeting and the Interfaith Action Community of Chester County welcome Adam Waterbear DePaul, storykeeper and tribal council member for the Lenape Nation of PA. Adam will present a brief history of the Lenape Nation and information on the present day community including spiritual practices and beliefs and their primary missions, reviving and preserving Lenape culture and
supporting the natural world. Please register in advance.
Let’s Talk About Black Quakers
Let’s Talk About Black Quakers
Join the Black Quaker Project for a bi-weekly, free, online film festival, and Let’s Talk! Watch any or all of the five films screening on alternate Saturdays from 12 February through 9 April, or just bring your thoughts about Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, Howard Thurman, Mahala Ashley Dickerson, Bayard Rustin and/or Paul Robeson to an informal discussion of what we’ve learned on Thursday 21 April at 7:30pm. All are welcome; click here or call 646-558-8656 and enter meeting ID 873 3565 8140 to join the conversation.
CPMM Library Committee presents Zoom Book Discussion with Friend Wendy Sanford
On April 9th at 2:30 pm, Wendy Sanford of Cambridge Meeting and her friend Mary Norman will join us for a reading and discussion of their recently released book, These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class. Of great interest to all of us interested in forming genuine and equitable friendships across the divides created by racial and class inequities, the memoir chronicles the more than 65-year long relationship between Wendy and Mary. It’s a fascinating read, and will prompt us all to think more deeply about the ways in which our positions in social hierarchies affect our abilities to connect. Come and join us!
Here’s the Zoom link:
Topic: Wendy Sanford’s Book Talk
Time: Apr 9, 2022 02:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Blessing Darkness with Rev. Rhetta Morgan
A weekend workshop with Rev. Rhetta Morgan
Out of the winter season, participants in this program will explore the darkness together. We will start with a blessing:
We will bless each other.
We will bless what we bring to the adventure.
We will bless our beautiful world,
both the miraculous and catastrophic.
Then we will turn toward how we each define the dark and enter into a journey of reflection, mirroring insights, singing, movement, journaling, and communing in silence to deepen our relationship to the dark. We will then explore themes of the dark as a place of healing and rest, womb that births our vision, our creativity and the home of awe and wonder.
Join us for an adventure into the willowy shadows. Bringing our curiosity and hearts, we will discover, celebrate, and heal together.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial aid, please visit: https://pendlehill.org/events/blessing-darkness/