Pendle Hill Timeline

1915 The Woolman School, Pendle Hill’s predecessor, opens under the care of the Advancement Committee of Friends General Conference. 1925…

Shirley Dodson

A Term At Pendle Hill

In 1992, my husband, John, and I came from England to be Friends-in-residence at Pendle Hill for the fall term.…

Diana Lampen

Fit For Freedom: A Weekend at Pendle Hill and My Own Self-Discovery

How would you react if you were told that George Fox did not condemn slaveholding outright? That William Penn, like…

Alvin Jaquín Figeroa

Tradition at Pendle Hill

During the years Charlotte Fletcher added her sweetness and merriment to the Pendle Hill community, we celebrated her birthday by…

Janeal Turnbull Ravndall

Let Us Speak of Trees

Raising its crown 100 feet above the Pendle Hill campus, the stately Canadian hemlock stands guard behind Main House. All…

Robin Harper

A Touch of Enduring Beauty

Flash back about 30 years. It is obvious to me, as the staff head of the maintenance crew, that some…

Robin Harper

The Fear That Was Not There

One morning on an early April day, I was given an opportunity to learn a lesson about being in the…

Shelton LaVerne

A Place to Sit By the Springs of Living Water

The idea sprouted in winter term 1983 during my second year on the Pendle Hill cooking team. I saw a…

Frances Irene Taber

27-down: Hoover’s Org. (3 letters): A Pendle Hill Ghost Story

[In March 1971, an unidentified activist group broke into the Media, Pa., FBI office and took hundreds of documents from…

Charles Fager

The Best Thanksgiving of All

When I was living at home, and even as a college student, Thanksgiving was pretty much a bore to me.…

Elisabeth Leonard

Calls to witness, calls to charity

As I write this, I can’t help but note the many powerful world events unfolding in 2011. We have seen…

Gabriel Ehri

Unearthing the Roots of Patriotism

I’ve read Tony White’s article, The Immorality of Patriotism (FJ Feb.) several times. I particularly appreciate his frank honesty in…

Alicia Adams

Seekers and Shooters: A Quaker Photojournalist Reflects on Witnessing

By the time I graduated from college, I had burned out as an activist. I’d spent years telling people, stridently,…

Michael Forster Rothbart

Strained, Breathless, and Hurried: Learning from the Life of Thomas R. Kelly

The breakneck pace of our over-scheduled lives often serves as an obstacle to the cultivation of spiritual wisdom. For some,…

Chad Thralls

Quakers and Yunus Emre

There have been times in my life when I’ve been given the pleasure of discovering a writer or a poet…

Judith Reynolds Brown

Anne Parrish: Unsung Friend

The ministries of Quaker women who notably served the Religious Society of Friends have received well-deserved attention. In most cases,…

Gregory A. Barnes

Tom Louderback on Quakers and Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system with checks and balances, like democracy, and we…
Steven Davison on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this ministry. I share your concern. In fact, Pendle Hill just published…
Ron Braithwaite on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

At the actual sentencing, Jacob was sentenced to 30 months at the Sheridan, Oregon Federal Minimum…
Kevin Johnson on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

I would have hoped that Friends would refrain from violent protests in these difficult days. Friends…