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.
Quakers
Kairos: A Spiritual Journey
An in-person spiritual retreat based on the monastic practice of worshiping, working, and studying while experiencing solitude and community living. The term kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek noun describing an opportune and decisive moment; a combination of time and place that generates the ideal environment for actions, words, and/or movements.
Yardley Quakers Step Outside for Spiritual Growth and Medicinal Herbal Gardening
This summer, the Friends at Yardley Meeting (Bucks Quarter) are building a labyrinth and a set of raised bed gardens on the grounds of the meetinghouse. The community is committed to create a space for meditation, and to provide a growing site for medicinal herbs to be shared with the Singularity Botanicals supplying health-related products to the Chester, PA community. [Read more…] about Yardley Quakers Step Outside for Spiritual Growth and Medicinal Herbal Gardening
Pendle Hill’s Reading Group (June)
Hosted by Anna Hill
Jun 22, 2022
6:30-8:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
Free and open to the public! Register below to reserve your spot.
In June, we will be reading Navigating the Living Waters of the Gospel of John: On Wading with Children and Swimming with Elephants (PHP #352) by Paul N. Anderson. This selection complements our upcoming Illuminate Summer Speaker Series, which considers the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus in the Gospel of John. Click on the link below to purchase your copy:
PH pamphlet (reprint edition)
Amazon Kindle (e-book)
Barnes & Noble Nook (e-book)
For more information and registration, visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/pendle-hills-reading-group-june-2022/
Claiming Our Collective Power: Social Witness Among Friends
This collaboration between Woodbrooke and Pendle Hill welcomes Friends interested in exploring the relationship between individual and collective social witness. Participants will learn from each other’s questions and support each other to better steward and support conversations and discernment about social witness within their meetings.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/claiming-our-collective-power-social-witness-among-friends/
Transformation Stories: Altering Books and Awakening the Newest You with Jesse White
Jun 14 – Aug 2, 2022
An Arts & Spirituality Online Retreat with Jesse White
Tuesdays, 6-8pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
Step into the next chapter of your life with a newly recreated, interactive book to tell your transformation story! In this program, as we alter a book – from its physical structures to its narrative – we will contemplatively and creatively consider our life journeys, our next steps, and our spiritual leadings. “Transformation Stories” offers opportunities to draw, paint, collage, craft pop-ups and other architectural techniques, journal, and be creative in community.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial aid visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/transformation-stories-altering-books-and-awakening-the-newest-you/
Illuminate Summer Speaker Series 2022
An online collaboration between Barclay Press and Pendle Hill
Jun 13, 27, Jul 11, 25, and Aug 8, 22, 2022
2nd and 4th Mondays, June through August, from 7:30pm – 9:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
This quarter’s Illuminate introduces us to the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus in this unique gospel, the most theological of the four gospels in the Bible. “Friendly Perspectives” accompany each week’s lesson, showing Jesus’s encounters with a variety of people, and prompting us to consider what it means to be a Friend of Jesus in this time.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/illuminate-summer-speaker-series-2022/
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.
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Pendle Hill’s Reading Group (April) with Anna Hill
6:30-8:00pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) via Zoom.
Free and open to the public! Register below to reserve your spot.
April’s selected reading will be A Place Called Community (PHP #212) by Parker J. Palmer. You can purchase a copy below:
PH pamphlet (reprint edition)
Amazon Kindle (e-book)
Barnes & Noble Nook (e-book)
For more information or to register, visit:
Art, Activism, and Spirituality
An Online Workshop with Peterson Toscano
This interactive online program explores the intersection between art, activism, and spirituality that we experience as individuals and community. We will explore questions of how and when art and activism conflict with each other, and more importantly how they can complement each other, especially in a spiritual context. Participants’ questions and interests determine the content of the workshop as it evolves, providing a safe and nurturing space where anyone can share their own story, art, insights, and understandings.
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial aid, visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/art-activism-and-spirituality/